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Susan Nicol

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Winnipeg , Canada

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Contemporary, Mystery, History

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Rudyard Kipling
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Susan Nicol has been a professional writer since she graduated from Red River College's Creative Communications course mentioned in her first novel, Sagas & Sea Smoke. After launching her career as a scriptwriter and production assistant for a syndicated TV show, she became one of the first women sportswriters to cover the WHA and NHL. After five years in radio as a copywriter and assistant producer, she became an ad agency creative director and marketing strategist for a couple of decades. In between, Susan scripted TV documentaries, wrote magazine features, and penned speeches for Canadian cabinet ministers. Then she returned for a year to RRC's CreComm course to teach advertising and marketing.
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Sagas & Sea Smoke

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The Terror

by Dan Simmons

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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony

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James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition

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Quotes by Susan Nicol (?)

“Maybe we need to be blown off course every once in a while. It can open up a whole new world.”
― Susan Nicol, Sagas & Sea Smoke

tags: inspirational, philosophical

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“Remember to look up from the dirt occasionally and scan the horizon.”
― Susan Nicol

tags: inspirational

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“Remember to look up from the dirt once in a while and scan the horizon.”
― Susan Nicol, Sagas & Sea Smoke

tags: inspirational

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Susan’s Quotes

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

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“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: language

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing