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2 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Are you ready to switch off your screens and ponder or discuss another writing/conversation prompt during dinner tonight? You want to know about my thoughts on it? Here’s my take:I love paper. Funny enough, it took me a long time to become aware of this fact. I used to work with paper suppliers for the office, stationery, art, and crafts industry. As a journalist, I often received samples of paper because experiencing a material makes it more authentic when you are to write about it.
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2 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Archie Kregear is from the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State. He retired after working in the computer industry for twenty years, and then teaching Biology at the high school level. He started writing seriously in 2012. The first book he published was Mountain Gods in 2019. He participates in a writing critique group and two groups more focused on sales and marketing. When Archie isn’t writing, he is dedicating himself to photography. Which genres do you cover?
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3 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Have you ever found yourself thinking of something as kitsch (yep, pronounced like you know it in the English language)? It’s a Germanism, and – let’s face it! – it’s a very subjective term. Nobody really knows whence it came; there are assumptions that it first came up in the 1870s in the German art world. It then described mediocre art with a cheap image that is offered at a way too expensive price.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Are you ready to switch off your screens and ponder or discuss another writing/conversation prompt during dinner tonight? You want to know about my thoughts on it? Here’s my take:I have had four commencements in my life, if you will. The first one was after the traditional 13 years from my German grammar school at age 18. It was a celebration that was held in the music room of our school for all 66 of our class. There were only we graduates, some teachers, and our principal. No parents. No gowns.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Cyndi L. Stuart from Harstine Island in South Puget Sound, Washington, just recently sold an artisan farm in Puyallup where she and her husband ran a small nursery and pottery studio. After years spent as a garden speaker and horticultural writer, she now teaches an online continuing education class, The Journey from Idea to Manuscript to Published Book, through Pierce College during fall and spring terms).
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
I bet you stumbled while you were trying to read this German word. Actually, it’s a Germanism in the English language. And even longer words like these (which is not even long for any Germans) are actually easy to read if you simply take time and take every letter or letter combination by itself. Verschlimmbessern is pronounced approximately vuh-‘shlim-bessurn, which means to disimprove. (Hah! Learned a new English word myself just there!)What does this mean?
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Mary Boone grew up in Iowa and now lives in Tacoma’s North Slope neighborhood. She has hung out backstage with a boy band, DNA-tested salmon, and baked dozens of cricket cookies – all in the interest of research for her books and magazine articles. The newspaper reporter turned author has written more than 70 nonfiction books for young readers. Her recent books have covered topics ranging from entomophagy (i.e. eating insects) and recycling to biomes and salmon lifecycles.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Are you ready to switch off your screens and ponder or discuss another writing/conversation prompt during dinner tonight? You want to know about my thoughts on it? Here’s my take:Breakfasts in most countries seem to be sweet. I grew up on open jam sandwiches and cocoa as a little one. I hated both. I have always been a person rather for the savory choices. I had none back then. Breakfast was my least liked meal in the day. A soft-boiled egg on Sundays was a feast for me.
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2 months ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Every once in a while, literature plays into Germanisms in the English language, such as the term Vorlage (pronounce: ‘for-laa-gah, meaning original model/template). In fact, there is the claim (and I think, rightfully so) that no author ever writes anything without including a Vorlage in one way or another. There are archetypes we use that derive from the ancient legends and religions: the hero, the villain, the damsel in distress, etc.
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2 months ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Michael Magee, a retired English teacher, artist, and playwright, lives in Tacoma, Washington. He has been writing for 60 years, starting when he was 20. His first book, Cinders of My Better Angels, was published in 2011 by MoonPath Press. Michael has been a member of the writers’ group Poet’s Table for about 20 years. When Michael is not writing, he loves playing the piano and the clarinet, reading, playing chess, music concerts, film noir, and travel. Which genres do you cover?
