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SHARON HELGENS is an award-winning, internationally published author. Her work has appeared in magazines throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
In addition to several other awards, Sharon’s stories won or placed in THE CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION awards three years in a row. One of [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
November 5th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Most writers paragraph for effect, punctuate on impulse, and let split infinitives and comma splices fall where they may. Omnivorous reading substitutes for systematic study. Syntactic nomenclature is a thing they learn only if, somehow trapped into teaching others the craft, they find [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
October 29nd, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
“Drinking Zima is something Douglas Coupland would make a character do…. It’d be a device that would allow him to locate the characters in time and a specific sort of culture.”
–Douglas Coupland, jPod
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
October 22nd, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
I am a kleptomaniac. I will steal your lamps, mattress, clock radio, even the ice machine from the hallway vending area. I want to tell you about this before I check in so that when you see the room completely empty after I [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
October 15th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
October 8th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan.
-Douglas Adams
Laughter is the only thing that [...]
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