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Writing on Wednesday: Forgiveness is the Key to Art

February 26, 2014 Susan 4 Comments

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. Those are the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Ann Patchett, Nashville, Parnassus Books, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Fumbling, Tumbling and Finishing

January 29, 2014 Susan 2 Comments

Okay, I have no idea what I’m doing, but I just signed up for Tumblr. My page is here: http://susancushman.tumblr.com/.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: finishing, hip flexor, Microsoft Word, myofascial release, River Jordan, Tumblr, writing

Faith on Friday: Scotch Oatmeal Cookies and Erotic Thought—The Interior Life of Flannery O’Connor

January 17, 2014 Susan 2 Comments

Back in November I mentioned that Flannery O’Connor’s personal prayer journal had been discovered and was to be published. This…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Prayer Journal, erotic thought, Flannery O'Connor, hope, prayer, publishing, Scotch Oatmeal Cookies, writing

Writing on Wednesday: One-Armed Priests and Armless Iconographers

January 15, 2014 Susan

Remember when “Wordless Wednesday” posts were in vogue? If you’d rather not take the time to read my post today,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: armless iconographer, editing, handicaps, iconography, novel revision, one-armed priests, writing

Writing on Wednesday: With Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore or ???

December 24, 2013 Susan

(Wednesday’s post is going up today, on Christmas Eve, so I can spend Christmas with my family.) Thanks to my…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Christmas, Clement Moore, editing, Henry Livingston, The Night Before Christmas, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Drunk on Writing… My Pen Has Wings

December 18, 2013 Susan

In my last Faith on Friday post I wrote about a Greek Orthodox elder, Epiphanios. I wrote about his “softer…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: drunk on writing, Elder Epiphanios, my pen has wings, Ray Bradbury, writing

Mental Health Monday: TV Addiction

September 23, 2013 Susan 4 Comments

When I was five years old, in 1956, our family got our first television. I have no memory of my…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: self discipline, television, TV addiction, writing

(I Wish I Was) Writing on Wednesday

August 21, 2013 Susan 4 Comments

It’s been almost two months since I worked on revisions for Cherry Bomb, the novel an agent has shown interest…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: David Sedaris, literary agents, rejection, Richard Gilbert, Writers Digest, writing

Mental Health Monday: The Art of the Catalog (Formality, Sex and Adornment)

August 19, 2013 Susan 2 Comments

Six weeks after my accident, I’m beginning to get out a bit, which is a wonderful mental health blessing. So…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: catalog design, catalogs, J. Peterman Company, lululemon, mental health, shopping, writing, yoga, yoga capri pants

Writing on Wednesday: Dear Cherry Bomb

July 31, 2013 Susan 1 Comment

Dear Cherry Bomb, I am so sorry to have abandoned you for so many weeks. You must be feeling like…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Cherry Bomb, Linda Langton, novel revisions, writing

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