Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING, REALITY? and LITERATURE: The Dog Ate My Homework…

Posted on December 18, 2009 by susan

. . .or any other excuse I can come up with to explain my relative absence from this weblog as compared to my previous six years of blogging. In truth, some good things are happening. I am looking forward to … Continue reading →

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WRITING: 100 Poems in a Day!

Posted on December 1, 2009 by susan

Tim Clare has, I must admit, outdid our 100-Day Project participants 100-fold. Our output? A single piece–story, hypertext, drawing, photo, poem–a day. Tim’s? 100 in a single day! Check them out–they’re damn good and I particularly love and understand #98: … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Short-shorts and Flash

Posted on November 20, 2009 by susan

Feeling good with an acceptance of one of my short stories at an excellent online literary journal and that gets me geared up for taking advantage of this submission season. Joining Fictionaut has put me in the groove with some … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Dis-inspired

Posted on November 14, 2009 by susan

Boy, I read a short story today that just totally freaked me out it was so good. The concept, the pace, the skill with magical realism, the language, everything about it was so good that I cannot help but be…dis-inspired … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Groups

Posted on November 3, 2009 by susan

I’d just about given up on writing groups. Locally, there just didn’t seem to be any number of serious writers. Internetally, the groups were mainly genre fiction and stuck to the rules of writing as if they’d be struck down … Continue reading →

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WRITING & HYPERTEXT: Feelings

Posted on October 25, 2009 by susan

Yeah, it’s got to feel right. If it feels good, do it, so they say. And as I suspected, even with all the personal enthusiasm for hypertext narrative, the creative flow open full blast, and the best of intentions to … Continue reading →

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HYPERTEXT & WRITING: The Creative Process

Posted on October 1, 2009 by susan

While I’ve still not recovered from the 100-Day project to get back on track with reading and reviewing literature here, tonight along with five of the 14 participants I will be presenting a brief talk on the creative process.

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WRITING: Story Minutes

Posted on September 12, 2009 by susan

Mary Ellen Molski of Tribelet of Hoodlums has put together a new website dedicated to free reading and enjoyment of stories in various forms called Askewniverse. Coming fresh off a project wherein various artists contributed daily for one hundred days … Continue reading →

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WRITING: 24-hour Non-Stop Twittering Stories!

Posted on August 21, 2009 by susan

Check out Dene Grigar’s site and twitter #24hr twitter stream of 140-character or less stories (nanofiction?) that started this morning (Pacific Time). I’m going to try to post along and keep up with Dene and friends and am currently on … Continue reading →

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WRITING: A Lot

Posted on July 11, 2009 by susan

While I’ve had the best of intentions, it’s obvious that I’ve little time to read the past couple of months. But what’s better than reading? Only writing, and that I’ve been doing dawn till hours after dusk. We’re at day … Continue reading →

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WRITING & HYPERTEXT: Story Determines Form

Posted on June 27, 2009 by susan

I did a whole presentation on this at Hypertext 2008 in Pittsburgh last year: story wants to be laid out not according to the writer’s whim, but rather where it wants to go on its own. Of course, before the … Continue reading →

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WRITING & HYPERTEXT: The Muse and I

Posted on June 25, 2009 by susan

Been spending most of my waking hours writing hypertext short stories and often there’s a need to remind myself I’m a writer–or at lease I’m supposed to be writing down stories. There are several methods I use to bring myself … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Process

Posted on June 16, 2009 by susan

After fiddling with a new theme and layout in css, I finally am getting down to the business of writing out today’s flash fiction hypertext. There’s a pretty specific starting point for the story because in this case (for the … Continue reading →

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WRITING & HYPERTEXT: Tinderbox Fun

Posted on June 12, 2009 by susan

In the 100 Days Project, Steve Ersinghaus generously shared two versions of a story to show how the writing process works to sometimes show us when we get bogged down and how to turn the story around by approaching it … Continue reading →

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HYPERTEXT & WRITING: Comic Relief in Magical Realism

Posted on June 11, 2009 by susan

I’ve been having some fun within the frame of intense work in writing a hypertext story each day for a grand total of one hundred through the summer if I can manage to keep it up. Even if I don’t, … Continue reading →

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