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Susan Lawson: EDITING
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Susan edited a manuscript. I was preparing as text for an audio-book. Her feedback was crucial to the finished product, which received a national award. I'll be grateful to her for life and cannot recommend her highly enough. Hence, you should hire me to clean up your work. I'm speedy and thorough, and I can help you and your manscript make a better impression, whether you plan to send it to established journals and publishers or to self-publish (in which case, your readers will be. Of cost and completio...
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Susan Lawson: Meanwhile, at MY pond...
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Meanwhile, at MY pond. At writing group today we read together Mary Oliver's poem At the Pond. See below). Then I asked those present to write about a life experience or an observation of nature with a severity attached to it, as in the poem. I asked them to concentrate only on description and to stop without drawing conclusions. Add it to your piece. Occured to me strictly in the moment. The Cat that Didn't Get Away. But this wasn't enough for me. I wanted Howie to sleep over at our house. I alr...I kne...
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Susan Lawson: 02/08/14
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Meanwhile, at MY pond. At writing group today we read together Mary Oliver's poem At the Pond. See below). Then I asked those present to write about a life experience or an observation of nature with a severity attached to it, as in the poem. I asked them to concentrate only on description and to stop without drawing conclusions. Add it to your piece. Occured to me strictly in the moment. The Cat that Didn't Get Away. But this wasn't enough for me. I wanted Howie to sleep over at our house. I alr...I kne...
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Susan Lawson: A Kindess Poem to Start Your Weekend
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A Kindess Poem to Start Your Weekend. One of the techniques I want to use for circumabulating this idea of kindness is writing poems. I teach creative writing workshops and so have a storehouse of "techniques" for helping the conscious mind jump past the obvious. One of those is magnetic poetry- a technique that often helps me find relationships and ideas that would never occur to me using a more linear writing approach. So today I pulled out words beginning with A. Here's what I came up with:. See the o...
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Susan Lawson: What's Kindness Coming To?
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What's Kindness Coming To? Consider yourself warned: Life lived by the inspiration of greeting cards (Internet or the old-fashioned printed kind) and aphorisms is headed for a train wreck. You just can’t trust the folks who make up all those cards and screensavers to reproduce the quote accurately or in context. And the pictures they choose- puppies, babies, seashores and the like- are only meant to suck you in rather than add meaning to the electronically super-imposed words. Doesn't every living thing ...
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Susan Lawson: 01/22/14
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Kindness for Appearance's Sake. Here are some more "hits and misses" from the more than 7.5 million results to my Google search on kindness quotes, this time with a focus on the unspoken "why" behind kindness. I'm no expert on anyone's motives, but I do try to examine my own. Sometimes when we want to be "do-gooders" we do more harm than good and our reasons, while not vile, are less than pure. That Oscar Wilde says this speaks to its truth for me, since he was a man who understood how to command grand at.
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Susan Lawson: 01/28/14
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Kindness Makes the Coffee and More! I can't circumambulate kindness without thinking of the kindest person I know: my husband, Chris. Living with him the past 25 years has made me kinder and more patient. I've taught him a few things, too, if you know what I mean. But since I was already in my early 30s when we met, I'm still trying to catch up with him in the kindness department. No wonder when I saw this kindness quote, I thought of him. And I nodded. From then on we just talked places and times. When ...
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Susan Lawson: Kindness tells a story
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Kindness tells a story. I believe stories can change the world. I posted this quote that captures that very idea a few days ago on a Facebook page on writing I administer. It's been whispering in my ear ever since, so I posted it again here:. You won't find the word kindness. She was my light when the world put me in a dark place, and I want to do the same for her. The kindness Sarah extended me 30 years ago- practically to the day- I will never, ever, EVER forget. All I can say to her today is. Height='...
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Susan Lawson: 03/21/14
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You can't go home again. Or can you? Danae" by Gustave Klimt. Once upon a time a king shut up his daughter, named Danae, in a tower so she'd never bear children, all because an oracle told him he would be slain by her son. So what does all this have to do with going home again? During this time of transition in my life I attempted to revisit parts of my past- time periods when I felt whole and free. We moved a lot when I was growing up, and I often felt disconnected and at home nowhere because of it.
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Susan Lawson: 01/30/14
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Kindness tells a story. I believe stories can change the world. I posted this quote that captures that very idea a few days ago on a Facebook page on writing I administer. It's been whispering in my ear ever since, so I posted it again here:. You won't find the word kindness. She was my light when the world put me in a dark place, and I want to do the same for her. The kindness Sarah extended me 30 years ago- practically to the day- I will never, ever, EVER forget. All I can say to her today is. Height='...
