FEATURE
THE PRINT
January 18,1989
Page 5
Former student ready to publish third book
“You can’t give the plot of the
last book away even though it has
affected the lives of the charac
ters,” Haynes said, relating the
difficulties of writing more than
one book using the same place
and characters. “You also have to
re-introduce the characters in such
by Tina Marie Early
Staff Writer
Conrad Haynes is a colorful
and creative person with a fertile
mind who draws on his life expe
riences as a former student at CCC
and of Lewis and Clark College
to write books. Haynes will be on
campus Jan. 24 to speak to the
Humanities Experience class.
Haynes is a newspaper re
porter for the Lake Oswego Re
view and a published author of
two murder mysteries: Bishop’s
Gambit, Declined and Perpetual
Check. Bantam has already pur
chased his third book, which is
complete, but is not due out until
the summer of 1990.
It took Haynes three months
to write his first book, and three
more months to “make it pretty.”
The second book took much
longer. The setting of both books
is the fictitious John Jacob Astor
College and Haynes uses many of
the same characters for both books,
yet each book can be read inde
pendently of the other.
"It's like a cat.
You want to
teach him to go
get your slippers
for you, but he
won't
a way as to familiarize the new
reader and yet not bore the one
who has already read the first
book.” Consequently, it took six
months to write his second book
and several more months to re
write.
In describing the process he
takes with his book it is easy to see
that there is a close relationship
between himself and his charac
ters. They come alive for him and,
in fact, some of them are alive. His
characters, in part anyway, reflect
many of the people he has met
and are a combination of person
alities along the way.
Haynes does not plan his books
ahead as some writers do. He writes
them and the characters lead him
where they want to go. Haynes
speaks of trying to write about
who is going to be the murderer
only to find that he cannot get that
character to do it.
“It’s like a cat. You want to
teach him to go get your slippers
for you, but he won’t.” Haynes
said. His characters are just too
independent.
Haynes does very little re
search, relying instead on what he
knows. “One would save them
selves a lot of time if one would
write about what they know,”
Haynes quipped.
Each of his first two novels
IVa/'t for the 'Deep Star1 video
If you want to spend $5 to
have your intelligence insulted
then Deep Star Six is the movie
for you.
The special effects, large
monsters, and abundant electron
ics would probably classify this
movie as science fiction. Unfor
tunately, these special effects are
so fiendishly bad that they are
funny, but this is not a reason to
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see the movie.
The creators of the movie
must have been thinking that
the success of Aliens, which this
film greatly resembles, was caused
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Movie Review
hy Rick Pillar
by the nice shotguns. This accounts
for the skeet shooting at the bot
tom of the ocean. However, if the
producers would have studied James
Cameron’s film longer, they would
have found that it was excellent acting
and a semi-believable stoty that gen
erated its triumph. These are two
elements that are lacking in this
film.
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it would be advisable for the
producers of this movie to take
some classes in geology, deep sea
diving, military armament, and film
making. Overall, if I could use one
word to describe this movie it would
be bad, or appalling. Maybe even
rotten, imperfect, unwelcome and
debauched. The movie should have
been called Deep Star Sucks!.
It keeps
more than
memories
alive
have sold 39,000 copies, an im
pressive number for a first-time
novelist. Haynes explains that it
took him a year to find a good
agent and once he found her, it
was only four weeks before a deal
was made with Bantam.
"You can't give
the plot of the
last book away
even though it
has affected the
lives of the
characters."
Haynes is humble about his
success and seems almost mysti
fied by it. Now, as a published
mystery novelist, there are new
roads to travel. For example,
Haynes recently went to a confer
ence for mystery writers in San
Diego. I asked him how he felt
being among all these writers, many
who are well established, andwith
a wry smile he replied,”1 felt like
the Beverly Hillbillies.”
He appears far from it though
with the looks of a Lewis and Clark
graduate in a pinstripe shirt and
navy blue vest, brown hair and
brown eyes. In addition, his thor
ough command of the English lan
guage tells deeply of his intellect
and seriousness to write and write
well.
Haynes is visibly pleased with
this part of his life and seems to
enjoy it all. He enjoys the writing
and lecturing, but being a newspa
per writer is fundamental.
“I can’t remember when I
didn’t want to be a newspaper
reporter,” Haynes said. “It is
‘important work’; truth as opposed
to fiction. An integral link in the
sub-structure of society.”
Haynes will be speaking here
at the college on “How to get
published” as a part of the Hu
manities Experience class.
Focus ski trip set
t>y Angela Wilson
Staff Writer
The Focus on Women’s Winter-
Outdoor Adventure is a cross
country ski trip at Mt. Hood
, this Saturday.
A pre-trip orientation was held
Monday night to prepare the
vomen for Saturday’s trip. The
□rientation answered questions
ibout clothing, equipment, skiing
tiow-to’s, and other trip prepara
tions.
Nancy Mikleton, health and
pe instructor, showed examples
?f different ski techniques, and
ilso stressed the importance of
the correct clothing that should
je worn. Mikleton suggested that
the women wear wool, synthetics,
jr polypropylene clothing.
“You want to remember to
.vear clothes that are light, loose,
ind layered,’’said Mikleton.
The women split up into
’roups according to their skiing
ability. Nancy Mikleton, Nancy
Baker, news coordinator at Ciacka-
nas, and Sandy Hay, financial
planner, are the instructors foi
the trip. The three groups, twe
beginning and one intermediate
or advanced, each met with theit
instructors, and they went ovei
the ski routes at Meadows and
other skiing preparations.
“We all want to have a safe
trip, and be healthy,’’said Eller
Burbridge, counselor at the col
lege and organizer of the Focu<
on Women’s outdoor activities.
“I saw the bulletin in the cal
endar and thought the trip sounded
interesting,’’said Lisa Johnsen
Clackamas student.
Many of the women going or
the trip have never been on skis
before. The Focus on Women
activities are open to all women
students, staff members at CCC,
and in the community.
The ski trip is all filled up, bui
the Focus on Women do plan a
different activity for each term
Next terms outdoor adventure will
be a retreat to YMCA Camp
Westwind on the Oregon Coast in
April.