Author Archives: Susan

…nothing ventured, nothing gained. Though I couldn’t avoid a few more tweaks, had to send out Immortality to one of the lit journals just because. Continue reading →

It’s probably because I’ve been doing nothing but revising and editing the same two stories every day for weeks now that I’m getting, well, sick of it all. There comes a point in editing your own stuff when you work … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yes indeedy; the red bettas that I’ve introduced as a reinforcing metaphor at the end of a story have decided they like being there and have led the story onward into no-man’s land. Now it’s a case of cutting them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Saddled with a splitting headache, I spent most of yesterday on the couch with the laptop determined to get some writing done. I found that unless I was going to write about the pounding hammer of pain in my brain, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Flash of insight time: Went back to transfer the below story beginning into either Pages or Storyspace and realized that since I already know the story, there’s no purpose to writing it! Completely lost interest. Every writer implements a different … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ooo-ooo-ooo!  Just found a very minor help but one nonetheless on the piece referenced in the prior post: take the "sand" out of "sandcastle" and it still has obvious meaning yet frees the phrase up a bit. Sometimes editing gets … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With submissions opening up at several of my favorite literary journals, I’ve been working, working, working (translation: editing and revising and stabbing a brutally sharp knife into its bowels) on a story that’s close to being done. Close, but there’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →