{"id":229,"date":"2016-04-01T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/?p=229"},"modified":"2017-07-03T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:53:24","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Picture<\/a>They say there are two things you never want to see being made — laws and sausage. I would respectfully request that we add books to the list. \u00a0And why? \u00a0Because we writers are shameless thieves. \u00a0We’d\u00a0rather you didn’t know that, though. \u00a0We’d rather you just believed in the magic of our imaginations.<\/p>\n

The sad\u00a0truth is, we don’t make much up. \u00a0We don’t have to. \u00a0We’re inveterate eavesdroppers, ruthless carpetbaggers. \u00a0We snatch\u00a0our stories\u00a0from random strangers’ cell phone conversations, from the car next to ours at a stoplight, or from the neighboring table over lunch. \u00a0We find these exquisite little details just lying there on the ground like abandoned mittens. \u00a0So of course we put them on & pretend they were ours to begin with. \u00a0The owners are long gone — who’s going to mind?<\/p>\n

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The WSoGR on the Devil’s Kettle Trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally, I limit myself to co-opting nothing bigger than the proverbial lost mitten\u00a0but for my latest release (PICTURE ME & YOU) I\u00a0stole an entire waterfall. \u00a0Well, half of one, anyway.<\/p>\n

Wait, I can explain.<\/p>\n

See, I took a vacation a while back\u00a0with a few of my girlfriends (who, due to a sauna incident I won’t get into here, are now known as The Women Scouts of Grand Marais.) \u00a0We were supposed to go canoeing in the Boundary Waters but the weather turned on us & we ended up exploring the North Shore of Lake Superior from the comfort of a cabin with hot running water instead. \u00a0(It was a very good call.)<\/p>\n

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The real Devil’s Kettle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turns out, we were only a few miles from Judge C. R. Magney\u00a0State Park<\/a>\u00a0which is rumored to have a disappearing waterfall. Who, I ask you, can resist a disappearing waterfall? \u00a0Not the Women Scouts of Grand Marais!<\/p>\n

One steep, slippery hike later & sure enough, there it was — an actual disappearing waterfall. \u00a0We stood at the top of a cliff & watched the Brule River split itself into two waterfalls, one of which\u00a0dropped over the cliff & headed happily for Lake Superior. But the other half — and this is half of a fairly sizable river, mind you — dropped into a hole in the ground and disappeared.<\/p>\n

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Not something you see every day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seriously, it just\u00a0disappeared <\/em>into this pothole they call Devil’s Kettle.\u00a0And nobody knows\u00a0where it went. \u00a0Smart, scientific people have studied this phenomenon & have not gotten to the bottom of it. \u00a0Fully half of a big old river is just GONE.<\/p>\n

There is no writer alive or dead who could resist. \u00a0I didn’t even try. \u00a0I stole the name & the waterfall (along with a giant papier mache fish from one nearby town & a pie shop from another) and created a new trilogy around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

So there you have it. \u00a0I’m a thief. You’re welcome.<\/p>\n

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The WSofGR at Betty’s Pies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say there are two things you never want to see being made — laws and sausage. I would respectfully request that we add books to the list. \u00a0And why? \u00a0Because we writers are shameless thieves. \u00a0We’d\u00a0rather you didn’t know that, though. \u00a0We’d rather you just believed in the magic of our imaginations. The sad\u00a0truth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,29,27,30,28],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-devils-kettle","tag-inspiration","tag-new-release","tag-women-scouts-of-grand-marais","tag-writers-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}