Creative Meanderings

Favorite music to write to Most of the time, I prefer to work and write in silence or to the buzz of people around me. Yet, there are times when I need a bit of focus and for some reason I am most productive when I listen to country music. For years I have loved country music, though admitting it freely only came in the past decade or so when the fear of…

Describe your writing style in three words. Although I could say ‘creative, nonfiction, stories’ or something like that, I also think that most of my published writing has elements of comedy – because life is. So, these are the three words that describe my writing style as I try to show the realities of life, which is funny! 😀 Nothing more to say about that! ~T 😀

What are you currently reading? I have two books on the go at the moment. To diversify my listening material from true crime podcasts, I’ve started listening to audiobooks. So, I am nearly finished with the amazing memoir of Tara Westover. More slowly, I’m reading before bed Sapiens, which is interesting in understanding humans more. My 2019 reading list is long, so I’m enjoying the input so far. 🙂 ~T 😀

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…