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Writing on Wednesday: The Best Medicine

July 20, 2016 Susan 1 Comment

If laughter is the best medicine, then maybe cartoons about writers and writing is just what I need today. Taking…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cartoons about writing, Cathy Thorne, Debbie RIdpath Ohi, humor, New Yorker cartoons, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Finding Language for Primitive Emotional Experiences

July 6, 2016 Susan 17 Comments

This past February I did a blog post in response to a wonderful book I was reading, Why We Write…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A.M. Homes, adoption, Jason Cushman, memoir, Opinionated Man, Why We Write About Ourselves, writing

Mental Health Monday: Third Acts—Single After Single After Single

June 20, 2016 Susan

While waiting for the anthology I edited—A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be—to come out from…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: AARP The Magazine, acting, aging, Alfre Woodard, Jane Fonda, mental health, second acts, second bloomings, Sharon Stone, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Somehow It Works

March 15, 2016 Susan 1 Comment

I’m leaving the beach this morning with little time to blog, but I wanted to share a treasure I’m late…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Summons to Mempis, Peter Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Change is in the Air

January 13, 2016 Susan 2 Comments

  Just over three years ago one of my many query letters for my novel, Cherry Bomb, caught the attention…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: commercial fiction, indiei presses, literary agents, literary fiction, novels, publishing, writing

Faith on Friday: O’Connor on Writing and (Not) Loving God

December 18, 2015 Susan 6 Comments

A couple of years ago I discovered Flannery O’Connor’s wonderful book (published after she died) A Prayer Journal. It contains…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Prayer Journal, Flannery O'Connor, prayer, The New Yorker, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Back to the Future… and the Past

October 21, 2015 Susan

Today—October 21, 2015—is the date the writers of “Back to the Future II” chose as the day their characters would…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Back to the Future Day 2015, Back to the Future II, keeping the reader safe, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Second Person Narrative Voice

September 3, 2015 Susan 1 Comment

Note: Today’s post is a day late. I’ve been busy counting calories. (I’ve lost 3 ½ pounds in 3 days!)…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Ehud Havazelet, fiction, Kathryn Stockett, M.O.Walsh, My Sunshine Away, New York Times Draft column, novels, Second Person, Second Person Narrative Voice, writing

Faith on Friday: The Joy of the Artist

June 19, 2015 Susan

This will be my final post of reflections from Jonathan Jackson’s book, The Mystery of Art. Links to previous posts…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: art, caretakers of the culture, Enation, faith, Jonathan Jackson, joy, The Mystery of Art, writing

Writing on Wednesday: When the Writing Gets Tough…

May 27, 2015 Susan 1 Comment

The new (July/August 2015) issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine arrived just in time. Although it seems to be over a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: "Creativity Deconstructed", editors, Jessica Strawser, literary agents, Louise DeSalvo, novel revision, revising, Theo Pauline Nestor, writer's block, Writer's Digest Magazine, writing

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