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
The Conspiracy of Creativity
In a way, what I am about to write is a sermon. And I would leave it at that, except that I don’t, as a rule, write sermons. Oh, I give sermons, no question, but when I gave my first sermon in Homiletics class during seminary, the class sat spellbound, and afterwards, a classmate of [...]
Read more…Collecting Rejection Letters
Ah, finished your book? Excellent.
What? Uh, sure, I guess. (Beat. Pause. Foot shuffle.)
Are you sure you want me to talk about agents, editors and publishers?
I will, but it probably won’t be as pretty as we’d like.
Actually, I’ve not had a particularly hard time of it. Admittedly, I’ve been writing my novel series for 13 years [...]
Writing What You Don’t Need to Write
I write my novels based on events from my own life. This means that when I was in the midst of the second book, Brigadoon Moon, and living less than a mile from the World Trade Towers, that when 9/11 happened, I stopped writing for six months.
It taught me a valuable lesson. I can’t write [...]
Page Fright
I’d already heard of stage fright; in fact, been there, done that. I even know how to handle it, but page fright? Never. My friend Barbara Winter tweeted this mid-February:
joblessmuse Fun suggestions for getting unstuck. RT @MildlyCreative 7 Playful Ways to Overcome Your Page Frighthttp://bit.ly/a7HbuX #writing from Twitter 2/17/10.
Thus was I introduced to Ken Robert [...]
The Mex Map
So what’s an author to do when she’s written six novels in ten years? How does she keep track of the facts first of all? And the nuances second?
Here’s just one example. In each book, my protagonist has to sing a little song about the ludicrous nature of her given name which is Mexicali Rose [...]
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