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By SusanSeptember 14, 2023Posted inWriting
Almost two years ago, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue paid tribute to his mentor Stephen Sondheim after his death. The subject of editing came up. I’d just talked to my daughter on…
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By SusanJanuary 23, 2023Posted inWriting
Just when I wondered, what will I blog about next, I learned about Chat GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer), a state-of-the-art language processing AI model developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in…
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By SusanDecember 8, 2022Posted inWriting
Guillermo del Toro’s animated Pinocchio is set for release today, Friday, December 9, on Netflix. Unlike most versions, which take place in an unspecified time in the 1800s, del Toro confirmed that…
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By SusanNovember 11, 2022Posted inWriting
Regal Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle was the most talked-of ‘learned lady’ of the Restoration period, 1660-1688. She wrote in her own name in a period when most women writers remained anonymous. In her preface to Observations…
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By SusanNovember 8, 2022Posted inWriting
I read my manuscript this week in a hard copy, my final draft before returning it to my developmental editor. Yikes! I would like to re-introduce you to my vision…
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By SusanOctober 10, 2022Posted inWriting
Our car pulled up the driveway. Summer was officially over. Six weary travelers trudged to the back door. My mother was carrying 6-year old Casey, who was sound asleep. Father…
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By SusanSeptember 19, 2022Posted inWriting
One of the processes of publishing is to identify the 'Ideal Reader." Here is mine: I visualize my readers in a rally-like crowd, for some reason, women aged 30-75, all…
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By SusanSeptember 15, 2022Posted inWriting
I am entering an exciting phase in the publishing process for Rain Dodging: Connecting Royal History, Travel, and a Woman’s Personal Journey,* Fall 2023, She Writes Press. A few weeks ago,…
Let the misty mountain-winds be freeTo blow against thee . . . After my last day of classes at Oxford, I rented a car and headed for Tintern Abbey, just…