Category Archives: WRITING

BLOGGING & WRITING: And Second Thoughts

Posted on January 22, 2004 by Susan

(This started out as a comment to the post below on a review by Weblog Review of Spinning, but it ran so long that I decided to post it instead.) Thanks everyone, and Ben, I think you caught my covered-in-gracious-formality … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Critique

Posted on January 21, 2004 by Susan

Well, I suppose I should just get this over with. In my fragile writer ego’s never-ending quest for validation, Spinning was submitted to The Weblog Review, and the results came in last night. Three people reviewed the log over many … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Literary License

Posted on January 20, 2004 by Susan

Creativity allows a certain amount of free reign on use of words, although sometimes we tend to push a little bit too far and lose our meaning. “Reign” versus the more familiar “rein” in the previous sentence is one example … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Deadlines

Posted on January 20, 2004 by Susan

Here it is, the Witching Hour–three a.m. to four. That magic place for me when if I’m open to it, and if awake, can be the most creative (it’s either at this time of day or early morning in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Creative Fantasy

Posted on January 18, 2004 by Susan

I am amazed at the number of women who do not have a sexual fantasy figure in their lives. I realize that studies have shown that while a majority of women do, a large number will name their husband or … Continue reading →

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EDGAR AND I: The Male Influence

Posted on January 18, 2004 by Susan

Evidently, Edgar is getting through to me, and his influence is showing up in my Writing Voice (back in October I was really looking all over for my Voice and couldn’t find it). I’d seen references in other blogs and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Current Clichés

Posted on January 17, 2004 by Susan

Obviously clichés are trends set in time and spread to places by their quality of being catchy and repeatable. And though some will live in infamy—evidently we’re just unwilling to give them up—some will, with any luck, be lost to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: Promises, promises

Posted on January 17, 2004 by Susan

Mark the date: Today I am double-blatantly disobeying the Weblog Rules of Etiquette, and the same one at that–throwing out a “teaser” and not getting back to it. Honestly though, this time it is due to lack of time to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: My Stuff

Posted on January 16, 2004 by Susan

Little by little I’ll be pulling some stories and poems off my hard drive and planting them in Talespinning where with any luck, they’ll bother me enough to start revisions. Some are real bad, but others are okay and may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Fictionalizing Reality

Posted on January 15, 2004 by Susan

I just absolutely love Marc’s takeoff on a news item of God & San Antonio–you just have to read this at The Hanged Man. (Really, darling, you must.) Continue reading →

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WRITING, BLOGGING, REALITY, and PEOPLE: More Inspiration

Posted on January 14, 2004 by Susan

Since this tribute belongs in all the categories, I’ve headlined them all. Remember having a Pen Pal? Do kids still do that anymore? I remember even when I was older, writing to a co-worker’s son who was stationed in Vietnam, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Decisions, decisions…

Posted on January 14, 2004 by Susan

Well I may not be getting a lot of the physical things done—cleaning the cellar, sewing, building bookshelves, building P.C. Frankenstein, etc.—but I’m getting some thinking done. While I’m still in Stress Time Zone (i.e., being awake at strange hours … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Creativity and Technicality

Posted on January 13, 2004 by Susan

In my frameshop, I have contrived frames for the unusual—a brick, a pizza box, a wedding headpiece, an Olympic torch—among the usual photos, prints, originals, and certificates. Although helping a client choose mat color, design and a frame is being … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Verse

Posted on January 13, 2004 by Susan

I feel like such an internet thief, but seeings that the purpose of the internet is to share, I have stolen a link from J-Walk Blog who seems to find such wonderful bits and pieces of humanity to post. I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Metaphors

Posted on January 12, 2004 by Susan

In noticing that my previous post is loaded with food metaphors, I started looking beyond my own obvious food orientation for assurance that readers would themselves follow the implications of oatmeal and cheeseballs, for example. Without digging into it too … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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