Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING: Photo Album

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Susan

Oh this is truly a good day. I just opened Spun Out which is a photo log–meet Edgar! and a fellow blogger is helping me figure out Trackback. Life is good. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Books

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Susan

Read quite an interesting item on the thinking with my fingers blog this morning regarding a place called bookcrossing.com that encourages passing used books along for someone else to pleasure themselves without feeling the pangs akin to your youngest’s first … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Blogging and Trackback

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Susan

I spent quite a bit of this morning’s greyness with the shades drawn and hopping back between computer stations and the various peripherals following wires, fixing, screwing up, and trying to get everything back in order. One look behind the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Today’s Agenda Change

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Susan

Oh joy! I called my dad to find out what he may need–bread, milk, etc.–and he doesn’t really need anything, was sounding just fine and vegging out, napping and reading, and talked me out of going down there today! Of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Playing with Words

Posted on November 16, 2003 by Susan

I’ve spent some time in Word for Windows twisting words and emphasizing meanings, hoping to learn the secrets of the great ones in designing a scene just with a rearrangement of the same twenty six letters we are all given … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: What Makes It Great

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

This past Thursday night I drove home from class and it was snowing while the strong winds madly blew autumn leaves swirling through the blackness. It was one of those experiences of nature that might happen again in your lifetime, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Links

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

You’ll notice that I’ve added quite a few links to the left. Some may be cleared eventually, but I’ve found them to be most useful to my own effort at learning about this blogging business and the mechanics of it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Practice of Style

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

Have come up with an exercise in learning style that I will be shortly producing here as the results of my practice as I go along. I know it’s rather silly to post an entry about what I’m gonna do, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE, READING, WRITING, IF, ALL of it!!!

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

So here’s the plan: In the weeks before Christmas, we’re going to put on a big push for reading, writing and interacting as gift-giving ideas. When I was a kid (and I have plenty of pictures of my sisters and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Adventures of Helpful Man

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa! I was smart enough to take Inventory early in the game. As a superhero, I have some handy James Bond-like stuff in my belt, and I was even smart enough to eXamine each item and find out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: One Last Round

Posted on November 15, 2003 by Susan

Spent part of the morning walking tall and carrying a big stick. Well, carrying a big stick anyway. I haven’t walked tall since platform shoes were in style (and I still have them packed away for their reincarnation in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Square One

Posted on November 14, 2003 by Susan

Relax all you IF fans; Square One is not a brand new game that I stumbled across and you didn’t know about yet. I’m referring to going back to square one in getting back into the IF mode. I was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: How We Grow Things in Suburbia

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Susan

Another little tidbit I plucked from its chip bed to maybe reawaken with additional kilobytes some time soon. Today I spent most of the morning pounding a two-foot iron stake halfway into the lawn in a vain attempt to locate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: The Wondrous Dynamo

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Susan

Nothing major, just something I came across in my Tidbits File that I want to move here so that I don’t forget it again when an idea hits. Creative mood still in gear. Drugs help. “C’mon, it’ll make you feel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Stirrings

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Susan

It’s like opening the floodgates, or holding back the ocean. Which will it be and why? Driving home my fingers tapped out a rhythmic story on the keyboard of the steering wheel. Alas, no “Save” feature on the dashboard of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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