1. Read. It's all about story. Besides a good story, I learn from reading other author's books.
2. Take pictures. I drive around with my phone poised and ready. After all, I might capture something in the
background that sparks a story. You'd be surprised what's going on in the distance.
3. Eavesdrop. We might hear something that sparks a story.
4. Bang my head. I admit my head against my keyboard when nothing comes. It's like my imagination has gone on vacation and forgotten to invite me along.
5. Make up memes about writing or reading. I have always loved to do craft projects. Making a meme is a digital craft project. I can call it marketing and procrastinate for hours.
6. Quiver in fear. Writers are an insecure lot. We're gelatinous blobs of quivering fear that the story well has dried up. We're hacks. We'll never come up with another salable story.
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While a floppy straw hat is her favorite, novelist Ane Mulligan has worn
many including pro-family lobbyist, drama director, playwright, humor
columnist, and novelist. She firmly believes coffee and chocolate are two of
the four major food groups. Ane writes her Southern-fried fiction in Sugar Hill,
GA, where she resides with her artist husband, chef son, and a dog of Biblical
proportion.
Home to Chapel Springs
A homeless author, a theatre ghost,
and a heartbroken daughter ~
there’s trouble in Chapel Springs
There’s
always someone new in Chapel Springs, either coming home or stirring up
trouble. Bestselling author Carin Jardine’s latest book is a flop. Homeless and
broke, she and her little boy have no choice but to retreat to the house she
inherited from her nana in Chapel Springs—the house that’s been gutted. Then, a
stranger knocks on her door. One that will change the course of her life. With
one of her daughters in love with the wrong boy, a theatre rumored to be
haunted, and Howie Newlander and Mayor Riley go head-to-head in a hot election,
Claire gets caught in the middle.
TWEETABLE: 7 Things #writers do ... besides write.
I'm not a writer, but I enjoy creating memes. I am currently creating some memes for MaryLu Tyndall to help promote her upcoming release.
ReplyDeleteI love memes! And I know you're a reader. 😊
DeleteWell, I just took a 20 second video of an inch work inching. Go figure.
DeleteThank you for the confirmation. I am a writer. I hesitate to even mouth those words. I shake in my boots, take pictures, and occasionally put my thoughts on paper. It feels good to wear a writer's hat.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you said the words, Cherrilynn. We need to remind ourselves that we are.
DeleteCherrilynn, I too have trouble uttering those words.
DeleteWhen I'm not writing or reading I listen to books on my iPod. I've "read" more books that way than I'd ever have time to read paper and ink books. Besides, I can't read while I do dishes, scrub toilets, feed the cat, cook dinner, etc., but I can "read" with my ears for hours each day...
ReplyDeleteNote to self: Get Audible! Tami, you're the second person today to mention audiobooks to me. 😀 I love the actress my publisher hired to do my Chapel Springs series.
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