Hi, I’m Susan and I’m a writer.
I have been scribbling novels, poetry, and ranting essays since I was in middle school. Why stop now?
My goal for 2022 is to be prolific, so here you will find poems and short stories as I try to prove Ray Bradbury wrong. He said you can’t write 52 bad stories. Challenge accepted! Many of my stories are my way of world-building for my YA novels, The Time Ranger Trilogy. So stay tuned if apprehending rogue time travelers is your jam.
(Yes, that is a stock photo. That is not my arm. And I only drink my coffee black. )
The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.
Ray Bradbury, from “Telling the Truth,” the keynote address of The Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University, 2001
The Story Factory 