Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Epidemic

Posted on January 5, 2004 by Susan

Oh boy. It almost looks like a case of writer’s flu is going around and I won’t even mention the writers who I’ve evidently infected with my shouts and bouts of sneezing doubts because it seems that my fever of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Attack of the PC Demons!

Posted on January 5, 2004 by Susan

It just seems that every January the computer seems to have made a resolution to cause problems, and being less than human, it’s more likely to keep that resolution. I’ve had Nervous Mouse Syndrome, Alzheimer’s of the CPU, and various … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Bad Writing

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

Some of you may be aware of the The Bulwer-Lytton Website, “Where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome” and their annual Fiction Contest which celebrates the worst opening sentence of a story. I came across it and found it hilarious, especially … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: Space Turned Inside Out

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

I’m not sure exactly when I lost my head, but it happened once while I was driving on Interstate 84 and that wasn’t a very safe time for it to happen. My head doesn’t come off exactly, I mean it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Links

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

I’ve rearranged my links alphabetically thanks to one of Typepad’s latest features, and I’ve added a few in that I may not have pointed out in a post, so please do check the listings. Two that I’m adding in this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Common Writing Errors

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

My morning sprint has yielded another couple of gems as I stopped to pick up some pebbles in Jerz’s Literacy Mine of Information. Holt Uncensored is a bi-monthly column on the book industry that includes some articles on literature and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & CURRENT AFFAIRS: Politics

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

Yes, I know that more than anyone I wanted to keep politics out of this column. But it’s a primary part of current events and current events shape literature. I believe that while I will still manage to avoid much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: View of the Media

Posted on January 3, 2004 by Susan

The more English Literature courses I take, the more it enhances as well as wrecks my vision. Taught now to automatically see beneath the surface while following the story, the details are sometimes too much to bear. I’m sure I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Dual Function

Posted on January 3, 2004 by Susan

Friend Neha has commented on my odd hours as noted by my posting times, and I must explain that winter does seem to throw me off routine a bit. With my December harried work schedule and my semi-free January ways, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Decades of Difference

Posted on January 2, 2004 by Susan

One of the first placement or personality type tests I took as a kid I kind of cheated on. I tried to gear my answers towards the creative and ended up being typecast as a tractor driver. In first grade … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Weather Report

Posted on January 2, 2004 by Susan

Well I’ll be darned. (Not quite as earth shattering and requiring the expletive as when finding out you may be a Liberal.) It’s snowing! There’s nothing quite like not expecting it and looking outside before it’s fully light to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Still Nothing Yet

Posted on January 2, 2004 by Susan

Still seem to be doing silly things like cleaning the cellar instead of writing, but maybe these things just take time to get back in the groove. I am sure, however, that Spinning and blogging in general is not the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Course in Writing

Posted on January 2, 2004 by Susan

As part of our writing group, we are particularly interested in new media methods of narrative as well as working in the old fashioned (computerized text, which still crosses several boundaries) methods of writing and story telling. To get a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Liberal, Conservative or Somewhere in Between

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Susan

Well I’ll be damned. One thing I really try to avoid on this site (and in my life as well) is politics, but I found a link to this quiz on Snowball in Hell which is mighty fine reading in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: On Practicing Poetry

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Susan

As I believe I’ve mentioned before (you will find much use of this phrase here in Spinning, and among my peers over fifty; it generally is used as a “cover your ass” catchall for possible memory loss and the dreaded … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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