Nick Hahn's Blog, page 28
October 20, 2013
(nick’s thought for the day)
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
“SOLD OUT”
Nick’s signing event at the Barrett Bookstore in Darien, CT yesterday was a big success. Beautiful setting in the newly renovated store, wonderful arrangements with seating for 30, wine, sparking water and cheeses. The hovering store staff, headed by events coordinator Rosanna Nissen, thought of everything and made the evening warm and welcoming for all. Thank you Rosanna, Cheryl and Dorothy. The audience was attentive and inquisitive; we read, talked, sold and signed well beyond our 6:30PM ending time. Good thing I brought extra books or we would have run out!!
BORA MATAKWA to all!!
October 19, 2013
(nick’s thought for the day)
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
October 13, 2013
Nick’s Thought For The Day
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
October 12, 2013
Blogging 101: 10 Ways to Develop Confidence as a Writer
Reblogged from Creative Thunder:
I am a writer. Four short words that take courage to state.
It took me years to be able to say this without internally flinching. Looking back I can see the thread and identify the narrative.
An Audience of One
Initially, one of the best things I did was to keep up regular email correspondence with a handful of close friends.
Great advice for writers, I needed to be reminded of Mufidah's sage advice!
Nick’s Thought For The Day
You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.
October 12, 1949: Happy 64th birthday, Richard Price! The author of Clockers and Lush Life has also written for the acclaimed television series The Wire.
Victoria Falls, Uganda East Africa
October 10, 2013
Nick Hahn Returns to Darien to talk about his book “Under the Skin”
On Saturday, October 19 at 5:00 pm Nick Hahn will be at Barrett Bookstore to talk about and sign copies of his new political thriller “Under the Skin”. A long time resident of Darien, Nick Hahn spent several months in Uganda on a consulting engagement and observed abuses of human rights, especially those of women, perpetrated by local authorities and self-centered politicians. His experience stayed with him and inspired him to write a book that would both educate and entertain
In his novel,”Under the Skin”, a brutal African dictator is challenged by two young women from different worlds: Maggie Kincaid, born to wealth and privilege in New York, and Nabby Kibugu, born to poverty and obscurity in the African bush. Their unlikely friendship sparks a fiery political drama with the potential to upend the leadership of a country and change the lives of millions
Click Here for Interview with Author
Barrett Bookstore
314 Heights Road
Darien, Connecticut 06820-4127
United States
October 9, 2013
Nick’s Thought For The Day
When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga
October 8, 2013
Nick’s Thought For The Day
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
October 7, 2013
Nick’s Thought For The Day
“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me”
Helen Keller
