Motivational Moments....for Writers! #8 - Trisha Sugarek's Blog

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"....you have to be willing to write crap.  You have to write all the time whether it’s any good or not.  You can always delete or revise or rewrite but if you wait until it feels perfect, you’ll never accomplish anything.  You have to fill up pages with words and keep moving forward..." 

My interview with bestselling author Robyn Carr began yesterday  and she said this in the context of the interview. I couldn't have said it better so I borrowed it! Thanks, Robyn!

"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."  Kurt Vonnegut

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Edgar Allan Poe

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 ‘As a writer, I marinate, speculate and hibernate.’  Trisha Sugarek

My interview with bestselling author Robyn Carr began yesterday  and she said this in the context of the post. I couldn’t have said it better so I borrowed it! Thanks, Robyn!

Interview with best-selling author, Robyn Carr

Q. Where do you write? Do you have a special room, shed, barn, special space for your writing? Or tell us about your ‘dream’ work space

RC. I work in an extra bedroom that has built-in desktop, drawers and bookshelves to the ceiling.  I really outgrew it years ago – I’ve been in this house and office for 17 years.  I share the space with my husband who takes care of all our family business and attempts to help me with my business and since he tends to stack things, it’s become small and messy.  I have the half with the desk and desktop computer – he has the half with the file drawers, not that he actually files.  My desk is cluttered with everything from checkbooks to unanswered mail.  Given our computerized and internet lives, most of the unanswered mail remains unanswered.  If I can’t do it on the computer, it’s just impossible to get too.  This office that houses two people and a million books is only 10X12.  But it’s where I’m most at home.  The chair is curved to my butt and the screen is exactly the right distance from my eyes.  All the letters are worn off the keyboard because I like the keyboard.  I’ve occasionally tried new ones but they feel stiff.  I have laptops for travel but I’m not fast on them.  The real magic is right here.  It’s dusty – it’s hard to dust stacks of papers and books on the high shelves.  But it’s mine.  Just like that old Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser was like an extension of my body back when I was carpooling kids, this office is like my arms, legs, eyes and ears.  It’s my happy place. 

Q. Do you have any special rituals when you sit down to write? (a neat work space, sharpened #2 pencils, legal pad, cup of tea, glass of brandy, favorite pajamas, etc.) 

To read more about this author’s process and journey in writing go to: http://www.writeratplay.com/2016/07/23/an-interview-with-bestselling-author-robyn-carr/