But I didn’t actually start writing in earnest until I went to journalism school, at the age of 28 and after both an undergrad degree and five years working in the corporate world. However, the “writing was on the wall” as they say: as a child I wrote multiple picture books, about ice-skating elephants who were in love and BFF mice who had a falling out (don’t worry-it had a happy ending) in high school I interned at our local newspaper, first writing obituaries and then stories about interesting people in the community under my own byline I hated keeping a diary because I found real life somewhat dull to revisit on the page, and much preferred making up alternate storylines in my head. Despite being an early, voracious reader, a career in writing books never occurred to me. I am that author who insists she never wanted to be a writer. What made you want to be a writer? How did you begin writing?
I’m also currently writing my first non-fiction project (coming in 2021 with HarperCollins Canada) about discovering the “magic” hour in your day-the one you think doesn’t exist, but I promise, it does! -to accomplish something you never imagined you’d have time for (think: writing a novel, learning to play an instrument, becoming a master chef, learning a new language…). I’m 46, though still feel like I must only be 35 (where did that last decade go?), am an award-winning Canadian journalist, a cancer survivor, Mom to a whip-smart 10-year-old daughter (huh…maybe that’s where the last decade went…), and bestselling author of four novels ( Come Away with Me, The Choices We Make, In This Moment, The Life Lucy Knew), with another novel on the horizon ( Recipe for a Perfect Wife, winter 2020). Please give us a brief overview of yourself and your work. Now working on her fourth fiction novel, with a non-fiction book also in the works, she chats to us about early morning writing, her three-step strategy for staying motivated and crying over scenes in Starbucks. It turned out to be much harder than she thought and it wasn’t until her forties that she became a published author. Marketing director Karma Brown thought making the leap from copywriting to novel writing would be relatively simple.
If you want to be a writer, then be a writer…Write every day (even if it’s only 100 words), read every day, and focus on the big goals.
0 kommentar(er)
