Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING: Deadline Time Again

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Susan

For many of the literary journals, March 31st marks the deadline for reading until September.  The pressure’s on. So scattered though in thought that all the stories screaming out for editing are heard as one loud siren wailing in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Reading Like a Writer

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Susan

Oh why the hell not…I’m doing it anyway; I may as well read Francine Prose’s book to make sure I’m doing it right. Just about cracked the cover, but I’m liking this confirmation of my own thoughts: Like most–maybe all–writers, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & LITERATURE: Glimmer Train # 54 -Lit Journal Luck

Posted on March 6, 2007 by susan

As a backup to my previous posting about submissions, Glimmer Train (one of my favorite publications, by the way, because they’re devoted to short story form) Issue #54:  Of the 12 published authors in this issue, 5 of them appear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & LITERATURE: Lit Journals and Getting Published

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Susan

Just spent an hour looking back through several websites looking for that one Precious Literary Journal Editorial Staff that just made my day.  What they noted in their submission guidelines was that no author would be published more than twice … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & NEW MEDIA: Self-Effacing vs. Facing Self

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Susan

I give up. I’m not a writer, not an artist.  I’m a reader of others’ words and framer of their art. I’m just too late and still not good enough, that’s all there is to it. But I can sew, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: And TurboCAD!

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Susan

Might end up not posting on this project here, but rather switch it to Pseudohyperfiction, a blog I’d set up a while ago to handle this particular thing. What I’m doing is working with four stories that had been relative … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Publishing Posthumously

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Susan

Since I’m rewriting some of my stories in the couple dozen I have–and stopping just short of deleting many others (likely I’ll just refile them under "Dead Issues" in my Creative Writing/Stories Finished Folder)–I’m taking into consideration the reading periods … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Submitting

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Susan

Just one story; just one literary journal.  When the Crows Gather is just right for them; I know it. Was it finished?  As good as it can be?  I don’t know; I think so.  Few was the better story for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Is It Soup Yet?

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Susan

Suffering from the it’s-not-good-enoughs.  Avoiding the issue is becoming a way of life, working up to the deadline at not getting it done.  Self-sabotage is half the problem, self-doubt is the other. Likely only two more months at most to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Emotion

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Susan

I am so full of repressed anger that I can’t even sputter for fear of exploding.  Within an hour of filling the birdfeeders with the mid-range priced seed, I see four squirrels dumping out the feeders to get the choice … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Breaking Out

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Susan

I’ve mentioned this before; learning from watching some of the reality shows–the ones that do have some measure of reality still left. I’ve been watching Grease – You’re the One That I Want for the past few weeks, and like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Human Nature

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Susan

The longer I live, the more I believe that man is inherently evil and must be taught to overcome his own nature to live among others of his kind.  Babies will slap out at what annoys them, but must be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA, REALITY, LITERATURE, WRITING: Contemplation

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Susan

Pondering: Purpose, beyond being fruitful and multiplying.  Man’s place in living. Wherein lie my talents, skills?  Does anyone recognize them?  Do they exist beyond my mind?  Layered space, separated only by time. God.  Difficult to overcome learned faith, yet faith … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Faithful vs. Flawed

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Susan

It’s a lot easier to spot the flubs in a movie than it is to find them in a book.  Often when you question something in a text you’ve gone so far beyond it that you couldn’t necessarily find it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Words–Inspired versus Planning

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Susan

This was brought up to me once, when in a classroom setting I couldn’t write in a short given time a word of story.  It sort of means that a good, professional writer should be able to conjure up a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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