Susan Haven

  • M is for….

    One of my favorite procratination tools for writing is… a Map. I can spend hours coming up with maps to put my characters in physical space. And I don’t even write fantasy or science fiction. I just love a good map! I like to think of Tolkien spending hours not writing and creating those beautiful…

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  • L is for…

    In our continuing saga of a so-called writer who does not write, we come to the Letter L. In fairness, I am doing my few words of this blog for the April Challenge and I am writing my morning pages (Thanks Julia Cameron for such a great tool). But for the most part, after I…

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  • K is for…

    As I continue my alphabetical list of reasons I am not working on my curret novel, I come to the letter K. Frankly, K has me stumped.  Kangaroo. I am not writing because I have the attention span of a Kindergartener who is swayed by any thing that goes by, like Kangaroos. I used to…

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  • J is for Junk

    As in all the Junk that was in our house and has now been re-homed to our neighbors. The neighbors, in turn, re-homed their money to us. Not a bad trade. It is so nice to have all kinds of space in the house and garage again. Now the goal is to keep it empty…

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  • I is for…

    I is for freedom, and I is for being smart and I is for being kind and I is for important. (Okay, I was typing that with Abileen Clark’s voice in my head.) I have to admit though that Imagination, an important part of writing, is one of my greatest excuses for not writing. If…

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  • H is for Housework

    The closer to deadline, the cleaner the house, right? Spring break meant that my house was immaculate. the novel I am working on? Well, at least now there is an outline. Only visited one blog, a visitor here, Tamara Gerber’s  http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/

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  • G is for

    It didn’t take long for me to come up with G. I was wracking my brain until I realized that the reason I wasn’t writing was that I was watching Battlestar Galactica. Not binge watching, just an episode a day, but an hour each day I will not get back. Sigh. And in case you…

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  • The biggest excuse for not writing that starts with F that I could think of, was Facebook, followed closely by Followers, ie, Twitter Friends. Facebook for me is basically a way to keep up with out of state friends, high school band friends and a select few college friends. Honestly, I had more college friends…

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  • Blog hopping…

    I realized that I didn’t post my D and E blog visits, so here’s a shout out to them now… D Daily Musings by Carrie Destination Fiction http://diannegsagan.com/ http://darlamsands.blogspot.com/ http://denapawling.blogspot.com/   E   http://ericvanpelt.com/ Ephesians A to Z https://everydaymomentsofworship.wordpress.com/ http://emptynestinsider.blogspot.com/ Expressions

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  • E is for …

    The best Excuse for not writing Ever… Exercise!! I have spent the last six months in a diet and Exercise research study and during the study, I had to work out 4 times a week at their lab, walk 10,000 steps a day and log every piece of food that went in my mouth and make sure…

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