Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • 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…

  • It seems suitable to kick off May and also restart my concerted effort to write regularly again with a challenge by #whyshewrites – as first noticed by a fellow writer @kamsinkaneko from #theslowpath. I have been meaning to get myself back into the habit, but, well, excuses abound and one thing leads to another so that time passes without me sitting down to the computer and posting. There are pages written in my…

  • As a teen I had no interest in being feminine. Doing so came with the fear that attention of the unwanted kind would be given to me. Previous examples as a child had proven it so. Therefore, my feminine mother was probably frustrated with my tom-boyish ways. However, as I got older and became comfortable with my body and sexuality, I also embraced more feminine activities like wearing make-up, getting massages, and having…

  • This morning, I had the luxury of not having much on my schedule until the afternoon. Although I had initially thought to try a new hot yoga class at my gym, I was not committed to that plan. 🧘🏽‍♀️ So, when I looked at The Power by Rhonda Byrne book, I thought it was as good a time as any to read it. Little did I know that my soul was thirsting for…

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