Category Archives: WRITING

BLOGGING, REALITY, WRITING & EDUCATION: Prolificality Revisited

Posted on August 31, 2004 by Susan

Okay folks, after serious study of two syllabi, I have come to the conclusion that somethin’s gotta give. With my busiest picture framing season coming up, and the workload expressed in the only two classes I’m taking this semester, it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Developing ‘Tude

Posted on August 30, 2004 by Susan

I’m back safely from the scary journey into academia, and aside from an eight a.m. class that gives me no time to prepare if I’ve procrastinated, as well as presenting myself with hair still wet from the shower, several good … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Procrastination

Posted on August 29, 2004 by Susan

Putting off the things that can’t be faced for lack of concentration, control or energy. Excuses are the tool the best Procrastinator knows how to use, and use them well. Deadlines are the blade that dangles overhead. Faced with one, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Fresh Pineapple Inhibits Gelatin Setting

Posted on August 28, 2004 by Susan

No doubt about it, planning out a story is harder than just typing what’s freely floating in your mind. And stubbornly flaunting directions to avoid adding an element that is proven not to work is useless folly. You end up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: No Longer Hearing Voices

Posted on August 27, 2004 by Susan

I see it now, the problem. Answered simply by my friend, Neha, the question both to life and writing that I’ve struggled with the past few weeks. You’re trying too hard. Each story starts with an idea, an egg that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & CURRENT AFFAIRS: Lessons in the Backyard

Posted on August 27, 2004 by Susan

I feel American, inappropriately not dressed in red, white and blue but scarlet and green, just like a hummingbird, a gentle bird that gets aggressive in the later days of summer. The hawk swoops in on silent wings—there is no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Thinking

Posted on August 26, 2004 by Susan

I need to be re-inspired. To hear Waylon’s strong voice rumbling up inside of me. Willie’s words to cry for made-up scenes that cover for those uncryable. And Emmy Lou with sweet clarity of pain and purpose that changes straw … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Story

Posted on August 25, 2004 by Susan

I cannot tell a story over a paragraph long. This is what I’m beginning to clearly see from my concerted efforts in my writing lately. I honestly don’t know how to break out from that opening paragraph into a tale … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Potential

Posted on August 23, 2004 by Susan

In the Fall 2004, Issue 52 of Glimmer Train, “My Search for Red and Gray Wide-Striped Pajamas” by Peter Selgin, this quote from the protagonist, Steven: “I know what Uncle Nick means when he says I need a kick in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Promises

Posted on August 23, 2004 by Susan

Keeping a promise made, not to write unless it’s something worth writing about and my writing is worthwhile. Right now, if I write it would be an essay of diatribe, poetry could not live long within my words. If I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Painfully

Posted on August 21, 2004 by Susan

Standing on the cliffedge, leaping off reluctantly and yet with joy. Wondering on the way down if I can fly, or will a crushed heap at the bottom be the end of it. Having problems writing stories–story even, just the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Nightlights

Posted on August 20, 2004 by Susan

One last look into the moonless night from my darkened kitchen window; the snowball bush fluorescent with the sunlight gathered from the day. But look—one bloom has fallen to the ground it seems, separate from the others, and it is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Haikued Waterfalls

Posted on August 19, 2004 by Susan

A willow leaf bends dripping rolling raindrops form falling into swifter streams. Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Writing Reality

Posted on August 17, 2004 by Susan

Sometimes I write in metaphor, and sometimes not. Reality needs dressing up for many reasons; often pain is either hidden or understood in words that make it more real in the seeing of the textual version of the scene. Joy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Seasonal Being

Posted on August 17, 2004 by Susan

I dread the coming of winter. I am old, and can feel the snap of cold in the morning air earlier than the striplings around me. There is less food, there is a yellowness to my pallor that seeps in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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