Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING: Honesty

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Susan

There is a quality of writing that comes through in voice, I think, and it is a step up in the learning process.  I think I’ve just discovered it and while it draws on experience, it just as easily transfers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Inspiration and Plagiarism

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Susan

Not much posting on Writing here lately, mainly because I’ve been writing in Storyspace for the last several months and posting loads about the program and the writing process over at Hypercompendia rather than here since it is a more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: The Bore Factor

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Susan

You can always tell when a story’s just not grabbing somebody.  They find other things to do rather than read it. I’ve been on James Agee’s A Death in The Family for over a month–it’s a short book.  I’ve been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Choice

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Susan

With the very best of intentions and a birthday dinner to boot, my neighbor questioned me once again if I’d yet read her gift to me last year, Janet Evanovich’s Three Plums in One.  I could see she was disappointed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Using Storyspace to Inspire

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Susan

I’ve been posting on my writing using the software Storyspace on my other weblog, but wanted to duplicate this particular post here as it has a lot to do with the writing process, and it’ll prove I haven’t just been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Where have I been?

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Susan

Well writing, of course.  Only not here.  Writing story into the Storyspace environment or writing about the writing of hypertext in that program.  So I’ve been writing a lot, a real lot, but I’ve only been working on that and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Storyspace

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Susan

Got it.  Downloaded and registered and ready to go.  I check out the manual and am almost intimidated: 317 pages.  I don’t like anything that takes 317 pages to learn.  But I’d already played in this and now I’m ready.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & WRITING: et al

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Susan

Super super day I’m flyin’ high, which makes, I guess, the ground so very very far below me. Ordered Storyspace. Felt good about encouraging a writer to write.  A good writer, one that should be writing. Made a customer happy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & NEW MEDIA: Learning Anew

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Susan

While my craziness over ability has swaggered back onto a trail of sorts that still leads in the direction of writing, I’m discovering new methods that may be forcing other issues into the open and inadvertantly working to their betterment. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Exercise

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Susan

I’ve never been a good one for applying creative energy in an on-demand performance.  Just never think that quickly; I’m a ponderer. But maybe even if I allow myself to take the time, like hours or a day above the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Whatever.

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Susan

After seeing Lisa’s "You should be a Poet" results, I took the quiz.  Honest, ever since 8th grade when my four-page career exam suggested I should drive a tractor I’ve been careful about these tests. You Should Be a Science … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Influence of/on Era

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Susan

There was a reason I selected A Death in the Family as my next-up read: it tastes completely different than the novels I’ve read in the past several weeks.  Ths novel was published in 1956 and at its time, contemporary.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Reality-based Ideas

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Susan

Today it did occur to me that maybe man was not the first choice species to evolve at such a rate to claim superiority over other inhabitants of the earth.  I think that maybe there was another that had a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & LITERATURE: Mumblings

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Susan

Even as I fill the day with e-mail discussion about the ego, fears, methods and means of writing there are more discussions daily regarding both the reading and the writing of story. At Chekov’s Mistress there is a post and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: The Muses of Hell

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Susan

You can have time and patience and words and yet nothing will unravel into story.  You can make up your mind that you have no words and don’t have the least knowledge of arranging them nor ever will.  You can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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