Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Potential

Posted on August 23, 2004 by Susan

In the Fall 2004, Issue 52 of Glimmer Train, “My Search for Red and Gray Wide-Striped Pajamas” by Peter Selgin, this quote from the protagonist, Steven: “I know what Uncle Nick means when he says I need a kick in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Metafiction

Posted on August 23, 2004 by Susan

Very interesting post at Daniel Green’s The Reading Experience about Metafiction, giving much information about its background and an interpretation of its intent. Since I am a relatively uninformed neophyte when it comes to historical literary movements–although I do certainly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Promises

Posted on August 23, 2004 by Susan

Keeping a promise made, not to write unless it’s something worth writing about and my writing is worthwhile. Right now, if I write it would be an essay of diatribe, poetry could not live long within my words. If I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Painfully

Posted on August 21, 2004 by Susan

Standing on the cliffedge, leaping off reluctantly and yet with joy. Wondering on the way down if I can fly, or will a crushed heap at the bottom be the end of it. Having problems writing stories–story even, just the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Saturday

Posted on August 21, 2004 by Susan

Rainy day. Everything’s gray. Nothing to say. Anyone else out there ruled by the weather? Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Traffic

Posted on August 20, 2004 by Susan

Wow! My typepad hitcounter just went way up the past couple of days! Oh, wait a minute… It’s just me in love with my new color scheme. Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Nightlights

Posted on August 20, 2004 by Susan

One last look into the moonless night from my darkened kitchen window; the snowball bush fluorescent with the sunlight gathered from the day. But look—one bloom has fallen to the ground it seems, separate from the others, and it is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Haikued Waterfalls

Posted on August 19, 2004 by Susan

A willow leaf bends dripping rolling raindrops form falling into swifter streams. Continue reading →

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REALITY: Motivational Theory

Posted on August 19, 2004 by Susan

Arms and legs not dangling, doing something, even if that something isn’t needing to be done gives a minor sigh of having done. Things that do need doing are just complicating things that can’t be faced with half a brain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Food for Thought

Posted on August 18, 2004 by Susan

Dinner out last night, pizza of the very best aroma, flavors, colors. Pepper living green and pungent hot; sausage wafting scents of garlic, fennel, sauce of cheery ripe tomatoes, anchovies instead of dreaded salt, and broccoli and mushrooms, well, they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Things That Irk

Posted on August 18, 2004 by Susan

Every now and then I read something that brings out an inner voice that clashes miserably with what I’ve been developing here, and I’m tempted to open another blog called, “Hardass.” This, from the BBC News this morning: “A-level wait … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Writing Reality

Posted on August 17, 2004 by Susan

Sometimes I write in metaphor, and sometimes not. Reality needs dressing up for many reasons; often pain is either hidden or understood in words that make it more real in the seeing of the textual version of the scene. Joy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Seasonal Being

Posted on August 17, 2004 by Susan

I dread the coming of winter. I am old, and can feel the snap of cold in the morning air earlier than the striplings around me. There is less food, there is a yellowness to my pallor that seeps in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Myopic Duskvision

Posted on August 16, 2004 by Susan

Perimeter check of the backyard: A peach peeks from rain-dripping leaves! How did I miss it–I check it each day; for the late frost had killed all the blossoms, I thought. I take out binoculars, as the peach flies away; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Feeling Stupid

Posted on August 16, 2004 by Susan

I feel so unintelligent today. The words stick like Holy Hosts to the roof of my mouth, and no dislodging by a sacrilegious writhing tongue can set them free. Bowing head nor gazing at the heavens will release the thoughts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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