Author Archives: Susan

REALITY?: Empowerment

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Susan

Right now I’m in the midst of a discussion with a good friend about the power of positive thinking.  I’m naturally taking the negative position. In my personal experience, for me, negativity has gotten me a lot further in life–even … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Waiting

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Susan

Sitting here waiting.  For the dawn of what we’ve learned to call today, a step towards tomorrow.  For five more opportunities of yes or no that have the potential to open a gate–despite yesterday that brought one rejection.  Planning already … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Genre Switch

Posted on August 22, 2006 by Susan

Very interesting.  A couple comments on my spider posting have made me think about my roots in writing and its more evil tendencies.  My humble beginnings, aside from the required compositions on summer vacation, were based in horror.  Not fantastical … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING:

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Susan

As I’ve mentioned before, stories come to me from the opening lines and pretty much unravel from there, staying for the most part intact through all the rewrites and edits.  But this time, trouble is brewing. It’s just not quite … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Morning Perception

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Susan

The largest of the locals, a blue heron and the smallest, our hummingbird, at a point in my sight of morning where without the added third dimension, they are equal for once in size. While on the bottom of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Oh the Joy!

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Susan

Joy, that is, until the realization hits that if you love it that much–and I feel that way about a story I’ve just "finished," than you’ve simply become blind to its flaws.  But oh, I don’t know if I’ve ever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & STORIES: The Only One True Secret to a Happy Life

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Susan

Oh, what a fool he must look!  One of those sad empty-eyed old men dressed in colorless wool jackets and jeans that slept in the stations at night and shuffled and mumbled their way up and down the passageways all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: A Natural Technological Occurrence

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Susan

Well, I’ve been just plain bummed out lately about life in general and have desperately tried to maintain whatever positive attitude I had formed when I’ve let others convince me that my negative attitude was doing me in.  So I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Continuing

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Susan

Three times I talked to her today; Nancy, my best friend who has just moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts and between the telephone and e-mail, we’ve kept in near-daily contact through decades and many moves and many, many changes. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Form of Planning

Posted on August 17, 2006 by Susan

It’s happening today–the same as once before where the story is all laid out for me, coming from the opening line but having a beginning, a middle and an end and I know what all that is. I can’t write … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & STORIES: Readerly

Posted on August 17, 2006 by Susan

He saw the heat and caught the scent of yellow on his tongue, tasting movement of its arc and hearing daylight, loud as silence.  Searching, reached out and felt the shining disc that burned his sight, bit down and broke … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: What’s Not Said Nor Read

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Susan

There are days when what I’m thinking can’t be written, more often than the days when what is written must be thought out first. Prose runs and jumps, words forming chains like children holding hands and laughing.  Playfully a few, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Truth is Stranger

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Susan

I couldn’t write a believable story on what goes on every day in a world of normal people.  People who are loved and trusted, people who were raised right, people who will surprise you, turn away when in a certain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Feelin’ Gooood

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Susan

Cut my hair, tanned my arms and legs (I get a farmer’s tan that looks kinda weird unclothed), paid some bills, picked some vegies, and prepared papers for an early morning meeting tomorrow with the appraiser. And, I lost those … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Morning Rain

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Susan

Love this style of raining; heard but barely seen.  Fine drops in great profusion work together to form a noisy veil like tulle that grays the scene and takes it over for its mood. Lettuce plants are smiling; I just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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