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Write on- Clearing the books

Posted on July 22, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

    It’s summer and I have a hard time writing when the sun is out. I live in a climate where the sun doesn’t put on his hat too often. So on those days my mind wanders to other … Continue reading →

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Write On- What you read matters…

Posted on July 15, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

‘If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.’ Haruki Murakam         I love this quote.  I’ve always read widely and without any sense of purpose. … Continue reading →

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Write on- All the good writing is dead?

Posted on July 8, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

There has always been the cry– all the best writing is dead. Readers have been dumbed down. Literature is dead.  I have to agree with Dame Gail Rebuck’s recent comment, “It’s the power of books. People aren’t dumbed down–it’s a fallacy”. … Continue reading →

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Write on- Reading Aloud

Posted on July 1, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

Reading aloud is such an intimate experience, especially when reading to some one else. Heads close together, breath held as an important scary passage is read aloud late at night. It is from reading aloud that we learn the small … Continue reading →

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Write On- A writer must have utter faith in his star.

Posted on June 17, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

“A writer like me must have utter confidence, an utter faith in his star” F. Scott. Fitzgerald. When  F. Scott Fitzgerald told this to Michel Mok in 1936,  he was very ill with alcoholism.  It’s a sad thought to think so many … Continue reading →

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Write On- You need more than a million words behind you…

Posted on June 10, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

When I first decided to be a writer, I was in another world. I thought whatever you typed was… well, words set in gold and probably sent directly from heaven. I don’t know why I thought writing would be any different from … Continue reading →

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Write on- Oh never ever break a 17th Century Rule!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

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We were all taught early on in school that you don’t end a sentence with a preposition, but sometimes naughty things happen. The classic example is… What did you step on? We would never write or say– What on did … Continue reading →

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Write On- Googling the goggling…oh dear….

Posted on May 13, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

  Once in a while, a word comes along that really jars you out of the read. I was really into this current novel that I am reading…when I read the following sentence. She goggled. What? Googled? That was my … Continue reading →

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Write on- Writers- Life can’t ever really defeat a writer- Edna Ferber

Posted on May 6, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death — fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. –Edna Ferber I came across this quote and fell in … Continue reading →

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Write On- The Writer’s Diary

Posted on April 22, 2013 by susan sheldon nolen

I have to confess, I have tried so many times and in so many forms to keep a diary with the ending result– unreadable pages. In the end I wrote with a fountain pen, simply because it forced me to … Continue reading →

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