By Susan
“Staying True to Your Inner Artist”
Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and teacher. She calls herself an omnifaith minister and is the author of God's Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet. An intuitive since childhood, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 27 years.
The founder of Sanctuary and 11-year author/publisher of a free spiritual e-reminder, Seeds, she teaches and ordains metaphysical ministers as an adjunct professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics.
Susan has been published in Beliefnet.com, Business Ethics, Greendimes, Huffington Post, Intent.com, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Ode Magazine, Q-Spirit, Science of Mind, Self, and Winning Ways, among others. She writes spiritual fiction under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton and is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone. The first of the series, Oklahoma! Hex, was released as an audiobook last fall.
For many years, Dr. Corso was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations.
She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz. Her mission in life is peace.
For spiritual nourishment, visit www.susancorso.com.
New in the Susan Corso Column
Creative Mind v. Editorial Mind—the Case for Both
This is a speech I give to every writing client I ever have.
Creative mind is totally, completely, absolutely (could I be any clearer?) different from editorial mind. I should probably repeat that. Creative mind is totally, completely, absolutely different from editorial mind.
Do you have this in your own experience?
I’m no brain surgeon, by any stretch, [...]
Writing to Plot
I don’t know any other writers who write the way I do.
I call it writing to plot.
First, I never, ever start a novel from a cold, white page. After I finish one, before I even read it over, I start the next one. That way I’m always in the middle of a novel. I usually [...]
Forms and Formats
So, at long last, format. In this case, the Mex books needed an external editor. I finally hired a swell one, Toni Amato. He edits all my books before they go out. For how to find him, read on.
One of the truths of being a writer is that our minds fill in the blanks. We [...]
Novel Components (Pun Intended)
Everyone who read “Mex” loved her, and even so, I knew the book wasn’t in the right format. Still, I kept rereading and rewriting Oklahoma! Hex while I moved back to New York City and established my spiritual therapy practice as well as doing various day jobs.
By then I knew that each book included several [...]
The Trip Home & the Genesis of Book Two
My White Mountain aerie lies about two hundred miles north/northeast of Scottsdale where my mother and I were sharing my failing grandmother’s condo in order to care for her. North of Scottsdale has been developed like crazy and urban sprawl is epidemic.
At the usual point in the journey, I needed a stretch and a loo. [...]
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