Category Archives: My Writing
Halfway there…
The semester is nearly half over already. But some exciting things have happened. My contest with a writing friend to see who could write the most short stories resulted in her finishing one and me starting two. We decided to revise our contest for October with the goal to finish the most short stories. Then …
Crazy Semester So Far
This semester has been pretty hectic, certainly busier for me than previous ones. This means I won’t be updating as often. My posts will be sporadic, but I will do what I can. One prompt a week, on Sundays, instead of Sunday and Thursday. Some recent posts are Tumblr because I’ve been having issues with wordpress …
Short Story Contest
One of my fellow writers and myself will have a competition. Who can write the most short stories by the end of September? She is already ahead of me with one completed. Hopefully I can catch up! At the very least I will have written more short stories in one month than I have previously, …
Oops!
Oops is all I can say about the prompt for Sunday. I was in Columbus, Ohio, for the weekend for my mom’s graduation from OSU with a master’s degree. And I went to Volunteers of America and got new clothes. There will be a prompt Thursday.
Texts for the Fall Semester
I’m getting ready for the fall semester at Bowling Green State University. The first day of class is Monday. For my fiction workshop, I’ll be reading “Twilight” by William Gay, “Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver, “Building Fiction” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, “Making Shapely Fiction” by Jerome Stern, and “On Becoming A Novelist” by John Gardner. …
Research Leads to Strange Places
I have never liked spiders or ants. I would scream, freeze, or smash them whenever I saw them. Yet earlier this summer I wrote a short story about spiders. The last couple of days I’ve been working on a short story about ants. Writing a story about something I don’t like or fear removes the …
Revision Tips
Two important writing tools that I use when I revise are readability and http://www.wordle.net. I learned of the readability feature in Microsoft Word from “The Writer’s Little Helper” by James V. Smith, Jr. To turn on the readability feature is simple. When you spell check a document, click on options and select “show readability statistics.” …
Novel Away!
I started my first novel in May 2004. I worked on the story idea, expanding it into a two-book series. I wrote both during National Novel Writing Months, in November 2009 and November 2010. (Find out more here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/.) But I decided to take a break since I wrote on and off for years. And …
Acceptance!
Tuesday afternoon I received an acceptance letter for two of my poems to be published in the October issue of “Heavy Hands Ink.” I am very excited to share these poems! Here is the link to the website if you want to check out the magazine before then: http://heavyhandsink.wordpress.com/
Writing Goals
It’s always good to have some kind of goal in mind. Mine usually take the shape of long lists on my computer. Feeling creative enough to use glue, I made a poster with all of my writing/reading/translating goals and hung it near my writing space. So I can look at it but not let it …
Suzanna and Writing 