Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • What’s the first thing you remember writing ✍️? Aside from starting my journal 📔 at age eight, I first began writing stories through school assignments. My first memory of having an effective style was through some shared activity where we randomly shared our short pieces analyzing advertisements on TV 📺 and I wrote about the Colgate toothbrush commercial. My class considered it funny and well-written, so I became interested in writing more. After…

  • If you could be writing anywhere in the world, where would it be? Initially, I thought that it wasn’t about a place in the world as long as it was a café like I wrote in Day 3 and Day 4 of this #whyshewriteschallenge . However, after a bit more contemplation and digging deeper into my mind, I recalled my lifelong dream of sitting in a Paris café on a sunny day with…

  • Describe your writing routine At the moment, I would say I don’t have an actual routine for writing, but I am trying to work on that – thus this challenge. However, I do write ‘morning pages’ as soon as I wake up almost every morning. I keep my journal by my pillow so that I don’t have to make much effort to pick up my pen. When I do want to do a…

  • What is the first/worst job you ever had? My first ‘real-world’ job was also my worst job. 🤣 Growing up, my parents and I always had an agreement that I did not need an outside job as long as I kept up my grades and worked on the family blueberry farm during the summers. I got an allowance and the arrangement suited us all. 🤑 However, the summer before I headed off to…

  • Are you a plotter or a pantser? So… I had never heard the term ‘pantser’ before this prompt, 🤷🏽‍♀️ but a quick search clarified this for me. Along with the definition came the option of a ‘plantser’, which is a combination of the two and my answer. 👍🏽 Despite being a plotter in every other aspect of my life with a minimum of 15 alarms throughout the week to guide my daily activities,…

  • Share your writing genre I dare to say that if I have one, my genre is creative nonfiction. Most of my published works, whether creatively or professionally, would likely be considered nonfiction. Although a piece I’ve been working on for many years is fictional, it is loosely based on truth. However, all of my other writing is the telling of experiences – either mine or others. The types of stories I like to…

  • Who is a woman writer who inspires you? My favorite authors are generally male. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Patterson, Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc. are some of my favorites. However, along similar lines I have loved female writers like Bronte, Alcott, Austen, Tartt, Atwood, Morrison, Rand, and more. The female authors I prefer tend to be more contemporary or modern reads rather than the classics. Still, to choose one author would be basically impossible let alone a…

  • Today’s prompt: What’s your writing snack? Interesting question and not sure I have a writing food. However, a good cup of coffee is a must for my writing sessions. Something about the scent of coffee helps me focus my mind to write. Without it, I feel as if a writing session is incomplete. 😛 ~T 😀

  • Share a photo of your writing space My writing space is almost always in a café – a Starbucks’ one at that. Since most of my adult life has been spent away from my home country, I fell in love with the Starbucks’ experience early on when I felt homesick and craved the essence of America. Sitting in a Starbucks’ café would often satisfy that yearning just enough to keep me going. One…

  • While I’m in the flow…. Favorite motivational quote. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle I do not know if this counts as a motivational quote, but it has been one of my favorite quotes since I was in college and fell in love with Aristotle’s teachings. Although in college I really disliked my friends’ elitist attitude as I found it a way of…

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