Susan Haven
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(Just a reminder folks, this was written in 1986. Before the internet had pictures. Kind of like PC\’s before windows. Unix people lived in a linear world.) Ok, now the standard disclaimer. The following information is provided ONLY for entertainment purposes. Some instructions are highly illegal and will get you a Darwin Award faster than…
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In honor of my newest project, I am actually digging up something I wrote about twenty years ago. Basic Bus Hair was written and Kinko-ed to be a Christmas present for the folks I did Young Life with while going to college. I was a \”rural\” YL leader, which meant visiting the high school and…
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. — Thomas H. Huxley Everyone needs a friend like my friend Lynn. You have to be in shape for it, of course. Actual real life conversation: L: I need to to 20 Tuesday. I\’ll do five in the morning and then meet you for 15.…
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I think there\’s little point in writing. ~ Kingsley Amis And some days, I think the only person I annoy is myself. The days when the words are working against me and not for me, when I can\’t for the life of me get this stupid passage right. When the inside of the brain isn\’t…
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“As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.” Katherine Paterson I had a visitor last night that kept me up too late, late enough that 4:30, which is already hard enough, was…
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind. — Gretel Ehrlich In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.– John Muir All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.– Friedrich Nietzsche He who limps is still walking.– Stanislaw J. Lec I am in the middle of rewriting some action scenes from the…
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I have to recommend any book that says you have to spend time dreaming most days. Terry Brooks\’ Sometimes the Magic Works is like Novel Writing 101 about the mindset it takes to write a novel. Or maybe I just admire him because he writes huge honking novels AND they get published. He freely admits…
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There is one thing worse than waking up and facing the day ahead from the starting point of 4:30 am. And that is facing the day from 4:30 am without coffee and breakfast. Sure, I know there are people in the world who face days and weeks without breakfast and not necessarily on purpose. I…
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I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, \”To hell with you.\” ~ Saul Bellow In tenth grade, I read a lot of Erma Bombeck and Art Buchwald. I wanted to be a humorist essayist…
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I Googled Dan Brown and Da Vinci code. Over seven and a half million sites are listed. And I bet some of the websites are by people who have actually read the book. There are book sales, the famous movie sale and big movie stars, and then an entire cottage industry of anti-Da Vince code…
