SUSAN LUTE
Romance and the search for courage and family
MY FAVORITE THINGSActivities? Reading, photography and walking.
Color? This is a toss up, because I really love purples, blues and greens. Place? Manhattan. There is so much alive energy there. Plant? Any rose. Clothing? Jewelry. Food? Besides dark chocolate? Spaghetti. Children? Teenagers. Magazine? MORE. Holiday? Christmas and Thanksgiving. Occasionally, I'll cook ~MY FAVORITE RECIPE~
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Susan Lute - Author, wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, dreamerThe oldest child of a military family, I traveled a lot as a kid. Over the years I become an ardent student of human nature; grew to love ancient history and myth. Along the way, I acquired a fascination for the ridiculous and unusual. Certainly, even now, I collect way too much useless information. Fortunately, that comes in handy when cooking up plots for a novel.
In high school I took every writing class I could, and wrote stories of civil war battles where the woman languished for the return of her man. One was about a pregnant teenager and the mother who stood by her. Another about the birth of a baby and the father who paced anxiously on the porch. In yet another, the moon stood guard over a pirate ship. I wrote poetry in the grandest dramatic tradition. I don't remember thinking...someday I'll grow up to be a writer. That didn't come until much later, after my first publication - a little known article for Listen Magazine titled, Jessie's Choice.
These days, I write, write, write whenever I can. In between I work as a Registered Nurse, read, watch movies, garden, take black-and-white photos, travel, and work at remodeling the house.
My favorite quotes are:
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do. ~Denzel Washington
You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head. ~William Forrester (from Finding Forrester)
The days that stick in my mind are not the ones when I had the answers, but the ones when I didn't. ~Me, Susan Lute
Being an author is a dream come true for me. My favorite writing tools are that first sip of coffee in the morning, and of course, my ever present laptop. I hope your dreams are as memorable.
~ Susan |
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