Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING & WRITING: RSS Feed & Special NEWS!

Posted on May 8, 2004 by Susan

In a post below I mentioned that one of the problems with RSS feeds is that if you depend totally upon them, not only do you tend to miss out on some great stuff that’s not listed in the excerpts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Life

Posted on May 8, 2004 by Susan

Cliché: Life is full of ups and downs. Truth: Most of life, in between its stages, is spent crablike, moving sideways. Even Super Mario meets brick walls, and leaps up to scamper across a new plateau. I suppose that there … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Melancholia

Posted on May 7, 2004 by Susan

Just a general sense of things not going well. Little things that pile up like kindling ready to blaze into a bonfire. I come from a long line of strong women who do well under pressure; we bake for funerals, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: RSS Feeds

Posted on May 7, 2004 by Susan

No doubt about it, blogging is having a huge effect on reading and writing. I intend to delve deeper into this particular aspect that RSS feeds impact how we are reading blogs, because it started bothering me the other day … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Downtime

Posted on May 7, 2004 by Susan

Got things to say, just don’t know how to put ém together for some reason. Tried last night to post because I noticed that I hadn’t made an entry for the day. Tried again this morning. Just don’t feel like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Spam

Posted on May 4, 2004 by Susan

It’s depressing to see how many weblogs have been hit by comment spam, and hopefully all such nonsense will be eliminated soon by a higher intelligence (don’t take much, neither!). I have been fortunate not to receive a lot of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Surgery

Posted on May 4, 2004 by Susan

Editing, revising; like outpatient and major surgery of a living thing. The laser zaps that clarify a vision, or work on twisted tense and typos to remove distracting moles. The cosmetic reconstruction of poetics to make it just a bit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS: Dreaming Memories

Posted on May 4, 2004 by Susan

I lie in bed and life goes by in slow motion, bits and pieces, good and bad. But guilty memories refuse sometimes to sleep, and turn to guiltless dreaming. Dependent on, perhaps the point at which the restless mind succumbs … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS: The Past

Posted on May 4, 2004 by Susan

It’s almost 3:00 a.m., and I’m thinking too much. I blog. A lot. Wonder sometimes if I have a lot to say or lead an exciting life (answered quickly, “no”) or if I’m just throwing things out there that are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Media

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Susan

Whew and neat-o! From J-Walk Blog, this weird little scenario called Hotel, an Interactive Tale that combines hypertext with IF, a plot of sorts and visuals. With any luck, this is the kind of stuff I’ll be just tasting in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: An Obvious Connection

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Susan

Wonderful suggestions from Crof over at Writing Fiction: He has expanded upon another post regarding READING some of the great literature of the past, from the Bible to Contemporary, to learn how to write. He gives us an excellent list … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Clarity of Purpose

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Susan

I get e-mail notices from Yahoo regarding Tunxis College events, and this one this morning had me giggling over its rather silly insistence: LAST DAY OF CLASSES/EXAMS Monday May 10, 2004 All Day This event does not repeat. Notes: LAST … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: What To Wear

Posted on May 3, 2004 by Susan

In typical Susan style, I immersed myself in literary mode this weekend to the exclusion of the less exciting world of picture framing and housecleaning. My husband forced me to take a break by suggesting we take a quick ride … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Sidelines

Posted on May 2, 2004 by Susan

I know what I wanna be when I grow up–besides a writer, I mean. I wanna be an copyeditor. Tomorrow I’m going down to Tunxis College and sign up for their tutoring program. Then I’m going to look online for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Color

Posted on May 2, 2004 by Susan

Another quickie — Amazing color depth to nature during drizzle; so much more intense than viewed in sunlight. I know that there is most likely a scientific explanation for this, and blue light versus yellow light, etc., but leave me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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