Author Archives: Susan

TECHNOLOGY: Done Deal

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Susan

This is coming to you directly from a pc I built from scratch!  Obviously, all I had to do was plug in the connector and I’m online in seconds!  This of course is not due to any great abilities on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: All’s Well

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Susan

…so far. And I must admit that I’m slowly learning to love Windows XP.  The installation of Win XP directly into my new system worked like a charm, and putting in the device drivers was a simple matter allowing the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Tension, Drama, Gooey Eyeballs

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Susan

I’ve spent the afternoon picture framing, putting off putting in the o/s on my new computer, and thinking up some nasty business for my storehouse of protagonists to face.  The guilt-ridden mother may have a worse secret than just the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Conflict

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Susan

I read knowledge to learn, non-fiction to seek truth, and fiction to live within a different world. I write non-fiction truthfully, have no great knowledge to impart, and fiction to live within a different world.  All readers of fiction want … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Things Yesterday Taught Me

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Susan

If five customers come in on the same day, they will also come within the same half hour. I cannot drive around to four towns, making nine stops, and be back home within forty-five minutes. I am in fact seventeen … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Stabilizing

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Susan

As the rooms are emptied of the clutter, and as the garden clutters up with growth to hide the brown dirt floor, I sense a calmer, satisfying substance flow within my veins, hear a murmur rather than a roar.  But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: On the coffee table…

Posted on August 3, 2005 by Susan

Maybe I just need to get away from the lit journals for a bit.  Pulled out April Fool’s Day by Josip Novakovich, and I might take a stab at Narrative as Virtual Reality by Marie-Laure Ryan.  These in addition to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading it, writing it.

Posted on August 3, 2005 by Susan

Though it seems as though it is happening very quickly, due perhaps to an overdose of short story reading, or maybe it has taken these five serious years of learning to write well, and maybe the lifetime behind it, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LIT & REALITY: No, fiction’s stranger.

Posted on August 3, 2005 by Susan

Where’s Harrogate when you need him? Last night in pulling shut the large barn door to my shop, I noticed something black flicker down to the ground.  A bat that probably was sleeping in the comforting dark behind the door … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Journey

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Susan

How be the life without the care, no worry ever nor the joy?  Smooth and straight the road, no signs nor lights and none are needed and the horizon clearly seen to break the time.  The end of journey seen … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: On Life

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Susan

You never know where you’ll find a bit of wisdom, although AARP Magazine should by it’s nature (at least as believed in some circles!) be a likely place.  But this, in the Sept/Oct 2005 issue: "The first half of life … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Hal

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Susan

Cooling my heels, healing the sick parts of pc’s.  Crawling around on the floor getting wrapped up in wires and blowing dust off as I entangle myself in the mess that is my mainstay of remaining in contact with the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Some Thinking On It

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Susan

Spent the morning pulling weeds and feeding flowers and vegetables.  Though the garden is a time for clearing the mind of thoughts it sometimes clears the paths to see the way. I pull out long blades of grass, the roots … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Statistics

Posted on August 1, 2005 by Susan

Oh, I suppose I could figure it out, and I do love working with numbers, but I just don’t have the time to play with this though I am certainly intrigued… In catching up with the four literary journals to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Short Story Essentials

Posted on July 31, 2005 by Susan

Trying to find a post I made a while ago on Flash Fiction, but gave up because I think I can give you the gist of it, and as it applies to some current short stories I’m reading as well … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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