Susan Haven
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Happy 2022! I just spent two hours a day the last seven days working on goals, systems, habits, and editorial calendars for the coming year. Will it help me reach my goals? Maybe, maybe not, but it sure was fun. Planning nerds such as myself live for these things. I do have a few writing…
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In elementary school, there were rules for everything. How to sit, how to walk in line, how to put your name on the top right hand of your paper. And of course, there were rules for writing. Pre-writing, drafting, proof-reading. Notice, there was not much re-writing, even though Ernest Hemmingway said all writing is re-writing.…
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No, I obviously not an essayist. Tried that hat on and it did not fit. Margaret Atwood says that fiction writing is problem solving, and I love problem solving. I also love James Michener’s novels, which seems to indicate that I like problems that take a while to solve. Hence, short stories and essays are…
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I was moved by this acceptance speech from Michaela Coel, creator of I May Destroy You: “Write the tale that scares you. That makes you feel uncertain. That isn’t comfortable. I dare you. In a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves, and to…
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Welcome to the X-er Files! After spending the past month writing morning pages every day about how difficult it is for me to write fiction, it occured to me, if it is that hard to for me to write fiction, perhaps it’s because I am not primarily a fiction writer. As I look at blog…
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You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”― Ray Bradbury…
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I originally planned to cover the second C of Capture, Configure, Control today, but I decided to do another post about Capture. To me, Capture is the piece where it’s easiest to go awry. It’s far too easy to use the email inbox as a place of Capture, and that rarely works well for anyone.…
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July has just flown by this summer. It normally does feel like it goes faster than June, but this year, it seemed exceptionally speedy. Saturday is August 1, and for me, it’s a “new year.” I like to have new years throughout the calendar – why should January get all the fun? But reading James…
