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Donald McKay [1810-1880] Canadian

Rank: 107
Designer, Ship Designer

Donald McKay was a Canadian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships.
He was born in Jordan Falls, Shelburne County on Nova Scotia's South Shore. In 1826 he moved to New York, working for shipbuilders Brown & Bell and Isaac Webb.

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Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.		101
To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.		102
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.		103
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.		104
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.		105
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.		106

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