Author Archives: Susan

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Things that Bother Me

Posted on November 27, 2005 by Susan

This is worth checking out from the New York Post:  Poor Grades Aside, Athletes Get Into College on a $399 Diploma.  An excerpt: He received three F’s that year and had a 2.09 grade point average in his core courses, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Story

Posted on November 27, 2005 by Susan

An hour of sleep disturbed by wild dreams of a three story high campus building filled with people I knew and yet empty of friends.  A meeting goes terribly wrong and lies and betrayal and thieves fill all the rooms … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Imagery and Setting

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Susan

I saw an old man in the city the other day.  His face carved to gauntness, his grey beard long and unkempt but full face with watered down sky eyes staring out and no mouth I could see but an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY: Timing

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Susan

Saturday morning Slide Tile games to busy hands while the mind works hard to contemplate and come up with the thought that no, there really is no purpose to life…maybe. Just breathe just breed and if the mind develops silly … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Truth is Stranger than…

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Susan

Check out the story one-liners on this list from the New York Times of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Now is it me or do the non-fiction books, in general, sound more exciting than the fiction–despite the fact … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Fixed

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Susan

I’ve not felt like writing or thinking or playing, so immersed myself inside the shop computer and gleefully discovered that the problem was a broken plastic clip holding the wire connection to the on/off button.  A dab of hot melt … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Thanksgiving Day

Posted on November 24, 2005 by Susan

Well I’ve gotten an early start on the feast since I couldn’t go back to sleep, but since Jim loves turkey, I’m hoping he won’t mind it for breakfast. It started snowing just a bit ago, and I remember that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Giving Thanks

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Susan

I’ll get back to Literature shortly, but right now I’m sitting in the shop replacing the plug end of an electrical extention cord and with pliers and knife I think of one more thing I am thankful for.  My dad … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: November Morning

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Susan

Bright sunshine promise follows sleep-spattered night.  Unconscious at nine, awake in the fright of a nightmare at midnight.  Warmed by a laptop for hours without writing, eating chocolate toes and fudge filled eyeballs leftover from Halloween night.  Head for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Walls Without Doors

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Susan

Seems I am back to my opening line syndrome, despite the fact that I have incorporated planning into my learned skills.  I may have a better idea where a story is going, but there ain’t a damn thing I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS: Susie Comma Grows Up

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Susan

SemicolonYou scored 15% Sociability and 64% Sophistication! Congratulations! You are the semicolon! You are the highest expression of punctuation; no one has more of a right to be proud. In the hands of a master, you will purr, sneering at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Transformed

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Susan

Mid-morning daydreams, delicious.  Concocted out of conscious mind and mixed with exotic spice of life, whole wheat experience, sweet cocoas, caramels.  Kneaded under pressure to make a dough that’s pliable, reformable, heated in the oven of the mind to reveal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Necessity is…

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Susan

…truly the mother of invention.  A bum barn door that threatens to flatten me like Wile E. Coyote every time it jumps its track fixed by switching doors around instead of spending money now on proper replacements before the winter. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Morning Services

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Susan

A neighbor driving by, slows, stops.  Bids good morning, laughs and questions the incongruity of what I carry to the shop; a laptop, hammer, jug of wine.  The hammer used to hang a mirror in the house, the gallon jug … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Losing the Novel?

Posted on November 20, 2005 by Susan

Very interesting post at 2 Blowhards titled "Book-length Fiction?" regarding the value of the novel, its length versus short story and the time it demands from the reader as well as what the reader demands from it.  Michael makes the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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