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…

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,…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…