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Award-Winning Finalist in the 'Fiction: Science Fiction' category of The 2012 USA Best Book Awards, sponsored by USA Book News

Horton Deakins, author of Time Pullers, is a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma where he majored in computer science and physics. An Oklahoma native, Horton has also lived in three other states and made his home in Japan for fourteen months, and yes, he eats sushi. In addition to writing, his interests have been in martial arts, composing and playing music, and sailing, to name a few. Currently, he lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Horton Deakins If the creative juices dry up, I simply return to reviewing and improving my existing passages. Often that provides the spark I need to keep going. I …moreIf the creative juices dry up, I simply return to reviewing and improving my existing passages. Often that provides the spark I need to keep going. I always start with that, anyway, reading first silently and then rereading out loud. I've found more problems by reading aloud than any other way. Often it's not spelling or grammar but the voice of the speaker that is amiss. It might be that the character is doing something as simple as speaking with contractions when that character never does that anywhere else. But more to the point of writer's block, I never solve it by daydreaming in front of the computer. If daydreaming ever works for me, it's in the shower or while I'm driving--circumstances where I can't write anything down.(less)

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Horton Deakins I'd say it's the opportunity to express your creative side. Music, dancing, and painting are other ways, and perhaps you excel at them all. But rememb…moreI'd say it's the opportunity to express your creative side. Music, dancing, and painting are other ways, and perhaps you excel at them all. But remember the saying: What's the difference between a pot roast and a [insert creative person here] ? The answer is that a pot roast can feed a family of four. It's very difficult to make a living at writing--much more difficult than just a few years ago. Just look at how J. K. Rowling got her start. She sent an unsolicited manuscript to an agent, the screener read it and then recommended it to the agent (if I remember the story correctly). That just doesn't happen anymore.(less)

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“Dychwelyd i wlad eich hynafiaid; gwaed yn galw i waed.
Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.”
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tags: ancestors, magic, wales

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“My ears hurt as if being tugged upon by pliers—yet I welcome the pain, as it heralds the completion of my journey to reunite with my Welsh ancestors. I hear them clearly now:

We be *Tylwyth Teg*, the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk. *Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed*. Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-kinsmen. Magick is our way.”
― Horton Deakins

tags: elves, fairies, magick, tylwyth-teg

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“As they reread their essays, they will rededicate themselves to the mission. As they rededicate themselves, they will be reenergized. As they become reenergized, they will become refocused. As they become refocused, they will become empowered to efficiently and precisely direct the SCT. -- Mr. G”
― Horton Deakins, Time Pullers

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Horton’s Quotes

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

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“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
― Katherine Hepburn

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“My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.”
― Robert Millikan

tags: physics, science

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“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: lotr

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