Creative Meanderings

Favorite quote from a female writer: We are each responsible for all of our experiences. Louise Hay I’m not actually a quote kind of person. I used to look in awe at professors at university and graduate school who could just quote a Shakespearean line or two or three off the top of their heads. In school, we used to have to memorize a poem or something that ‘inspired’ us. Yet, I always…

Share your view. Usually my writing view is of a coffee cup or people bustling around in a cafe, but I thought I’d share this view that is on my desk at work because it makes me happy to see some spring life in the office. I look at it and daydream of another universe where I’d be writing my novel instead. 😀 ~T 😀

Who are your writing bffs? Tag them. For me, writing is a solo activity. Over the years I wrote on writing boards for feedback and sharing or joined meet up groups for writing circles. However, nothing really ever clicked for me. As a nomad in life, I struggle to find friends to hang out with let alone those with whom I’d want to share my writing. While I appreciate getting feedback and tips…

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,…