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Donald McKay

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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.


— Donald McKay


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I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.


— Donald McKay


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My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.


— Donald McKay


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To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.


— Donald McKay


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Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.


— Donald McKay


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In 1841 he opened his first yard in Newburyport and moved to East Boston in 1845 building substantial packet ships for the Atlantic emigrant route. His house in East Boston is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ocean Monarch was lost to fire on 28 August 1848 soon after leaving Liverpool and within sight of Wales; over 170 of the passengers and crew periDonald McKayd.

His house in East Boston is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1841 he opened his first yard in Newburyport and moved to East Boston in 1845 building substantial packet ships for the Atlantic emigrant route. In 1826 he moved to New York working for shipbuilders Brown & Bell and Isaac Webb.

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