So glad I turned people on to him. You can also read his "real" work at the Miami Herald.

more fodder for the Hiaasen file.. Man hit by flying mattress doing OK NAPLES, Fla. -- A tourist seriously injured when a mattress flew off a passing furniture truck in southwest Florida has been released from the hospital. The Fort Myers News-Press ( http://newspr.es/HAz6Ip) reported Thursday that ...

i said hiaasen scans the florida papers for "story lines" and ridiculous events.. here is a sample: http://goo.gl/mqIuf Hair-raising blast at college as barber chair blows up A barber chair at a cosmetology college blew up Thursday. The cause of the blast and fire on the Deltona campus of ...

Glad you are enjoying it. I am a bit crunched for time time right now, but google "60 minutes, carl hiaasen" you should get a hit for an interview with him, where he shows the "file" of wacky news stories from South Florida where he gets many of his ideas. Also look into "Na...

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CHEMO!!!! He became a recurring character. He is in the last novel too, Star Island.

Florida is like a world on to itself. If I remember correctly Tourist Season has a story line about a Cuban militant and explosives? Well, yes, there was a time there where bombs were going off at travel agencies believed to be paying kick backs to the Castro's, and radio personalities who were deem...

He is one of those authors where you keep turning the page just to see what he comes up with next. And worst of all, if you spend any time in South Florida, it reads more like non-fiction. Things like what he writes about really do happen there!

thanks! I was surprised at an update right in the middle of NaNoWriMo. Out of pure curiosity, did you see any difference in # of downloads when it was released versus after NanoWriMo? Not "new" users" but people updating?

I do not know if this is the correct term for what I want to do. When I was a kid I had these "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, written in the second person, and every page ended with choices, "Do you take the door on the right?, turn to page 30/ the door on the left, page 40/ the do...

anything big, other than the update?
i was afraid to lose stuff so i waited till now to install..

KB - after all the help YOU and your program have been, I am glad to be of assistance..

oh man my NANOWRIMO hangover.. it really taxes the body, mentally and physically..

Plus, remember that under the rules, you need to complete the 'first draft', don't fret about the proofreading to perfection. Don't worry about me. I don't even have a clue what my 'novel' is about yet. I'm winging this one. you know/ remember how you wonder about love at first sight and people say...

ah, I use the magic of Scrivener:CHUNKS of a large body of work.. I've got quite a few parts worked out. I'm not sure the order I want them in yet, but I know what I want in my novel. Today was the meat, and I have a second serving of meat to do. The rest is the potatoes and fixings. Plus, remember ...

yeah but I got to stop now.. I'm on the verge of delirious.. if it were a gonzo novel I'd go for it. maybe next year I will do it gonzo style, cause Nov 2 is ALWAYS a holiday in Brazil.. I had a good idea frame worked out and i jotted notes and the like, so the first 2 or 3 parts i knew where i was ...