Susan Adrian

Happy Halloween! Hooray for those of you who cut! That is a pretty damn hard part of writing: (1) recognizing that you need to cut words; an...

See the below post (Okay, good! And now...) for rules. Take your edited version of this original, and cut cut cut. I found the queen in the ...

See the below post (Okay, good! And now...) for rules. Take your edited version of this original, and cut cut cut. I covered my eyes, squin...

See the below post (Okay, good! And now...) for rules. Take your edited version of this original, and cut cut cut. Her carriage slid around ...

See the below post (Okay, good! And now...) for rules. Take your edited version of this original, and cut cut cut. Alec was startled to hear...

Woke up to 2 inches of snow and a brisk 9 degrees this morning. It's a rule that it has to be snowy and freezing for Halloween. {g} How ...

And #4! I found the queen in the arboretum, a great big glass room chock-full of plants. The sun had already crested the horizon, bleeding t...

Snip #3: (look below for rules) I covered my eyes, squinting across the freshly-ploughed field into the bright afternoon sun. Dad was ridin...

Remember: try to add tension to this snip. Make it more intriguing! And don't look at other people's changes until you make yours! ...

Remember: try to add tension to this snip. Make it more intriguing! And don't look at other people's changes until you make yours! A...

Okay, folks, ready to play? Here's what we're going to do: I will post each snippet in a separate posting; all changes will go in ...

I'm going to try Discussion Friday again, and see if some of y'all will hop in and respond. Actually, this one is not so much discus...

Yes, I know. Long time gone. Surrey was amazing as always, but it does run me to the ragged point of exhaustion, and I always need several d...

Last day before Surrey !! I made the mistake last night of taking nighttime cold medicine, in the vain hope that it would knock the cough ou...

Argh, my cough is worse. Damn, damn. Well, if I end up hacking my way through the first day or so of Surrey, y'all who are there will ha...

I was reading DaMomma this morning, about a heart-stopping moment when her 5-year-old just dashed out in front of a car. God, they are so f...

Last night about an hour before bed my chest started to get tickly, and my throat scratchy. I had trouble sleeping--trying not to cough--and...

We had a surprise this morning--Child woke up with pink eye, nastier than mine had been. {sigh} That's an automatic no-go to preschool f...

The universe seems to be sending me a message today. I got a work email from our wellness division talking about the importance of forgivene...

What is the motivation that keeps you at the keyboard, day after day? It makes you stay up that extra hour to work on your book, or get up a...