Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING: Rewriting Woes

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Susan

Just got a note from a fellow writer on some problems he’s having with changing angles, viewpoints, focus.  I try to help, but today’s not such a good day to be handing out suggestions; woke up knowing that a lot … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Crossing the Lines Instead…

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Susan

…of t’s and dotting i’s is the harder part of seeing fiction in reality.  How much of what we thought we saw is real? Solid cubes of rooms can spin and twirl with scotch, or jump and twitch with fever–I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Glimmer Train #53 – More Show vs. Tell

Posted on September 17, 2006 by susan

Recent discussions have led me to focus more on the show vs. tell that we all know about, but also often find it difficult to remember in our writing.  Another example from Julie Rose’s Pinhead in this issue of Glimmer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Reality and Writing

Posted on September 16, 2006 by Susan

I’m learning that if you listen really well to either, you’ll discover things that can enhance the other. In the past year, I’ve met with lawyers and the thing I really wanted to say to concisely describe the situation and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Brevity

Posted on September 15, 2006 by Susan

Over the past several years, through classes, workshops, readings, etc., I believe I’ve been able to write in a more minimalist style while learning which simply-put imagery adds necessary grounding to story.  Still learning, but I’m nearer the goal. However, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Hoo-Hoo! Another Writing Group!

Posted on September 10, 2006 by Susan

In getting online to get directions to the Canton Library, what do I come across but a notice on a fiction writer group forming at this same library.  It’s running for four consecutive weeks, one night a week, and I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Advice

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Susan

Thanks to Michele Richmond over at Sans Serif for pointing out some of the best writing tips ever.  From Frederick Barthelme, The 39 Steps, A Primer on Writing, at the Center for Writers (Mississippi Review) we get such gems as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Publishing

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Susan

With so many weblogs and websites devoted to writers and legions of hopeful writers clicking out stories on their keyboards the market is being flooded with bad writing as much as good.  It’s a sword that cuts both ways.  While … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Again, with the Editing

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Susan

I’m such a twit.  Just to get something submitted for our writing group in, I posted a new story that I’d worked on for a week.  However, as I’ve said before, that’s when the necessary improvements come out like stars … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & WRITING: Images

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Susan

First, watch this:  Heaven, Earth, Tequila by Douglas Menuez  (thanks to Anne at Ample Sanity for the link).  It is unbelievably beautiful and moving. So the question posed to me was, "Can you tell a story with photos alone?" Of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Learning the Craft

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Susan

Great opportunity to learn from an expert:  Write A Novel.  There are 18 downloadable sections that cover the basics through the nuances and end happily at "Reading the Contract." Published author and teacher Crawford Killian is offering this online guide … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Plumping & Slimming

Posted on September 3, 2006 by Susan

Facing the past in the file of supposedly "finished" stories and finding them screaming for help.  Am I up to the task?  Do I see what they need?  I don’t know. Looking for arc, for conflict where I’m sorely in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Obsession

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Susan

Like a love affair, I live with a story nearly every minute of days and weeks until I have polished and tweaked and changed and tweaked some more and then it makes no sense to me and I begin to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: A Flash of Readerly

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Susan

Morning learning assistance from backyard contemplation.  I sat down on the backstep and lifted the coffee mug to take a sip, and only then noticed the doe standing still, watching me.  She turned and took two steps, stopped and took … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Finding the Right Words

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Susan

Writing has become a journey of reading signs, marking trails, looking far behind to see where I have been to discover what may be ahead before it happens  Stories can write themselves, but only with skill and experience will they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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