Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Critiquing IV

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Susan

This is a lazy way of doing it, but honestly more professional that what I’ve offered so far, and it deserves a post of its own in this series. First, in the previously referenced Critique Guidelines by Amy Sterling Casil, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Hunter

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Susan

The hunter smells the coming of Spring, feels it in every joint of his frame. Time to shed his camouflage of dusty brown and salty white that served so well for the winter’s prowl. Really must take Greenie into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Job Markets

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Susan

Excellent, to-the-point view by 2 Blowhards on the dwindling job market for animators, who are faced not only with being replaced by computer programmers, but by outsourcing to cheaper foreign labor. Little by little almost everyone’s job will be threatened … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Critiquing III (Yeah I know, I said I wasn’t gonna…)

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Susan

Just noticed that in referring to Casel’s piece, I typo’d Hardcore Critique Guidelines into Hardcare Guidelines. Aside from wanting to make the correction, I’m wondering if this wasn’t a Freudian slip… Care is an essential element of the process; care … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Critiquing II

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

“An interesting post, but the critique/criticism issue gets more murky when you bring in what people “hear” and “act” upon that hearing. How does one learn to take good criticism?” (ersinghaus response to WRITING: Critiquing (I) 3/20/04) Personally, I find … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Spinning – Out of Control

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

When did I turn from mellow marshmallow and halfway decent person into a pompous ass? Sincere apologies to any I may have offended in my posts of late. I shall try to be better behaved and more considerate. Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Links

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

“writer’s blogs and friends, and finding organization without labeling; Blogshare and my belief in capitalistic pigdom” Every now and then I go through the links listed here and cull out inactive links, or move things around a bit, usually resulting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Another sidetrack

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

Driving on Route 179, alongside the curves of the snaking Farmington River, I see the earth shedding its scales in great shale slabs that land precariously tipped against the cliffs, the raw unweathered wound brighter, cleaner than its rainwashed host. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: “Honesty,” or “The 2nd Post That has Nothing to Do With the One about Listing what I Need to Post about Before I get to Some of Those…”

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

Perhaps a shower cap would keep the water off my head and prevent the germination of the seeds that grow within… “Do good, honest work.” (quote by S.V.E. sometime recently) And that is perhaps the main reason for taking Talespinning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Sharing

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

I’m beginning to wonder whether my relative silence in my first fifty years of life was due to word storage in a fragile membrane within some as yet scientifically undiscovered spot within the brain that has, in my case, just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Topicae

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

Good grief, my mind is stuffed to overflowing with random thoughts this morning, and I can’t type that fast but am reluctant to lose a one. So, please bear with me if I use this posting as a list alone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Words

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Susan

Skulking through the fog of melting snow, he blends into the grey morning in camouflage of nature’s evil intent. They scatter at his progress for when he stops he is unseen and patient when they trustingly return, surprised to find … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Critiquing

Posted on March 20, 2004 by Susan

Figured it was a good time to take advantage of creative output to expand into areas other than my own self-serving interests. I have several pieces to read for a writers’ workshop in a couple of weeks. Honestly, I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Outer Space

Posted on March 20, 2004 by Susan

Strange day today, most of it spent working with my hands in the frameshop, but working on things that needed some thought put into them. Blasted the stereo up as well, because it is difficult to think sometimes if I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: My Vote

Posted on March 20, 2004 by Susan

Well, don’t know about you folks, but after much research and agonizing over the presidential candidates, I’ve made up my mind: (You can buy one for yourself — or me, since someone keeps stealing mine, hmmm–here.)

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