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Taps
Thanks for commenting, Taps. I promise I'll get around to reading your posts asap. I hope I can keep my mind pointing in the direction of writing.
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johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 6:24 PM
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Johnmcnab
I'm so sorry about your friend. I'm glad you've rejuvenated your goals and you are right, the battle is in the mind.
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TAPS.
on February 3, 2006 at 6:18 PM
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BrightIrish
I have most of my biggest battles in my own mind, BrightIrish. Sometimes I lose.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 6:09 PM
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jacenta
Thanks for the compliment, jacenta. It isn't until we get older that we understand the joy and fragility of life.
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johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 6:06 PM
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Azur
You are quite right, Azur, about the money complicating things. I have never written anything before for the sake of money. I will strip it right back to writing for pleasure, and find another way of making money. Regarding your thoughts about writing an article during your illness; last year during a dermatologist's excision of a cancerous mole, I was mentally composing the article, but decided not to write it. Could it be that writing is a sickness of its own? A delightful sickness.
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johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 6:05 PM
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Johnmcnab
Hi.. I am really glad to hear that you have a new perspective! Sometimes, I have thought that some of the biggest battles we have to fight are with our own minds.
Here's to you Fortune & Fame! 
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BrightIrish
on February 3, 2006 at 6:04 PM
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johnmcnab....
You made me remember how I use to say to my children as they were growing up, "If we took things lighter we could fly like the angels." We know how important each day of our lives are, don't we?
You are such a swell writer. Keep writing!!!!!
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jacentaOld
on February 3, 2006 at 6:04 PM
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What can I say?
Maybe you are tying yourself in knots by linking the money thing with the writing thing. Strip it back. Sorry what would I know?
Yes the cancer thing puts it in perspective and yet even at those times people still have their dreams beyond the illness. I remember tying myself in knots when I didn't sell an article about my illness because some other well known schmuck got the same disease the week before and sold their story first. I just went ahead and wrote it and it helped
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Azur
on February 3, 2006 at 12:54 PM
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ginnie
Let me see - it should be 7.37pm in Scotia, ginnie. You will probably have started dinner by now. You can throw around John McNab all you like, ginnie, but I know the name will not be recognized, as I used my own one then. Scotch and Wry was essential viewing - once a year just before midnight on Hogmanay. Mag or Gam. decisions, decisions - first of all, I'd better finish the book, eh?
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 10:38 AM
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Whoa Mac!
I hadn't heard of Rikki Fulton until I googled and this is a very very small part of what I found:
Scotch and Wry was enormously popular and was watched by more than two million Scots. That's an astonishing figure. If you take out the sick, young, elderly and congenitally stupid, it probably represents 99% of the Scottish population. It was essential viewing and the subject of conversation for days afterwards.
I will be throwing around Scotch and Wry tonight at dinner! So I know a celebrity eh? John McNab! :)
Oh and I really do think that GAM is much more appropriate! ;)
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ginnieb
on February 3, 2006 at 5:22 AM
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MerryAnne
Ooops. Hold on a minute MerryAnne whilst I check on that....You're dead right........I wondered who MAG was, as I don't know a Mag, but now I realise it is MerryAnne.Ginnieb. After that is Harper, Bush, Blair and etc. Do remember that it works both ways, MA!
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 3, 2006 at 4:56 AM
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I thought I was getting the first autographed copy?
Hmph. Oh well I'll settle for number 2 and a nice mention in the dedication.
:-)
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MerryAnne
on February 2, 2006 at 7:49 PM
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ginnie
It is called Haar, ginnie, as in a long 'a' - a bit like 'bar'....hic. I can see it rolling in, my friend. Do I miss it? Not on your Nelly. There has been enough mist, fog and rain here to keep me going for a looong time. I'll catch up with your posts later on today, ginnie. I'll ink your name in as
autographed book number one. Maybe she did mean rich in that way. It isn't that I don't like the fluff, so much as when I try to write it, it affects me. Have fun and try some Highland Park 12 year old malt and let me know what you think of it. Oh, and this time, tell your hosts that I wrote for 'Scotch & Wry' - Rikki Fulton. That might bring back some memories.
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johnmacnab
on February 2, 2006 at 11:56 AM
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Geez Mac...
..that does put things in perspective eh? :(
As for the fortune teller...maybe she meant rich in the sense of....okay...you hate that fluffy stuff! ;) I looked ya up earlier today...was hoping you hadn't skipped out...happy to see you haven't! I'm just looking out my window in your fair country (the first one, not Canada) at the fog that has rolled in...pretty amazing! Here's a question for you...is it called the Har? The Haar?
And remember..I'll buy your book! :)
posted by
ginnieb
on February 2, 2006 at 11:21 AM
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