SUSAN LUTE

Dear Idella,

Here's one for you. What makes a happy writer? I always thought being happy with my writing had to do with how many words I wrote in a day, how quickly I got a project done. The truth is, happiness isn't about the quantity of work produced, but the quality of the (more…)

Dear Idella,

Today, I put on my big girl panties and got four hours of rewriting done. I think I can actually work on 'the project' from 6am to 10am, four...no three days a week. So now that the yang is off to work, thought I'd clean house to Harry Potter, starting with THE SORCERER'S STONE. JK Rowling is brilliant.

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Dear Diary,

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last week. For the purposes of this 'diary', I'm not going to have a theme, or a particular subject I stick to, except my life as a writer. A theme will probably emerge, but not one I'm planning in advance.

With that in (more…)

Dear Diary,

This is such an old fashioned way to begin what I think will be a dialogue with myself, which is what a diary is all about, right? No one will read this but me, probably. That's okay. Blogging makes the world a smaller place, but I'm not unhappy with being anonymous in (more…)