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Shutta CrumAuthor :Shutta CrumAuthor I wonder how she does it?
Slide 2:Ideas can come from reading . . . Snakes!
Slide 3:Ideas come from pictures. Bears!
Slide 4:Ideas come from experiences . . . such as homebuilding. Whew! Hard work!
Slide 5:Grandkids and pets are good sources of ideas. More wild creatures?
Slide 6:Ideas can come from
combining travel and
family history . . . Shutta says . . . Shutta’s book
about her family.
Slide 7:Ideas can come from family photographs. . . Uh-oh! I better get out of here!
Slide 8:. . .or from photos by famous photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. These people are very poor!
Slide 9:Our old farm . . . . . . when we bought it. Ideas can come from where you live. Lots of work to do!
Slide 10:Our old farm today . . . Wow! Look at it now. And she wrote a book about it.
Slide 11:Researching an idea. More work to do !
Slide 12:Shutta’s thinking
room . . . . . . better known as the playhouse ! I’d like to take a nap in that hammock!
Slide 13:Yikes !!
What a cluttered desk . . . Too messy for me!
Slide 14:The first draft of
My Mountain Song. I can’t read this mess!
Slide 15:Ouch! My novel came back with
100s of sticky notes. Oh-oh! Can she try it again?
Slide 16:More corrections to make !!! Yikes!
Slide 17:moving Cutting my story up and around. it all Help! She’s desperate! She’s using scissors on her manuscript.
Slide 18:Books being made. I wonder if they mind having a fox in the building?
Slide 19:Her newest
book! Coming in 2009!
Slide 20:Sharing my
books with
others . . . The best part of writing ! . . . at bookstores, Shutta shares at book fairs . . .
Slide 21:. . . and at schools. She likes to share with
anyone who likes to read! Like me!
Shutta’s websites: www.shutta.com or www.shuttacrum.com :Shutta’s websites: www.shutta.com or www.shuttacrum.com For more information. Hey! She wrote a book about me. I’m in Fox and Fluff!