<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/spring-2007/novel-approach-writing.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Novel Approach to Writing</title><excerpt>Riding the elevator to her Hong Kong apartment in a gleaming, 44-story structure, Suzanne Woods Fisher ’80 heard many languages spoken. Her husband, Stephen, worked for Clorox in the South China Sea country, and the family became immersed in a fascinating foreign culture. “The first time we went to his office, I thought the map looked odd; Asia was in the center, not the United States,” Suzanne says. “After that we no longer saw the world in quite the same Americanized way.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2007/07/fisher.jpg" alt="Suzanne Woods Fisher"/>
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