Ask the Author: Trish Anderson
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Trish Anderson
I get inspired by other art. Movies, music, books, pictures. A conversation. My inspiration for my latest book came from a conversation I had with my mother about dogs sensing heart attacks, or seizures in humans. There's inspiration all around us, we just have to be mindful to look and listen for it.
Trish Anderson
I'm not sure how I missed all of these questions for 2 whole years, but I'll answer them now...
I had just graduated from culinary school and was debating on what to do afterward. School was a full time gig. Five-Six days a week, and anywhere between 6-12 hour days. It was grueling, and it took over my life, my thoughts, my everything for an entire year. After graduation I felt lost. There were many changes happening in my personal life at the same time. I've always kept a journal, and I write more when I'm going through a rough patch in life, so I started writing in my journal.
A mixture of my personal struggles and feeling lost without school turned my journal entires into a fictional story. Placing myself back in school, back in the drama, and far away from my reality at the time.
That's how my first story was born. A few of my friends from culinary school knew I was writing about our experiences, and they encouraged me to publish. So I did. The rest is history.
I had just graduated from culinary school and was debating on what to do afterward. School was a full time gig. Five-Six days a week, and anywhere between 6-12 hour days. It was grueling, and it took over my life, my thoughts, my everything for an entire year. After graduation I felt lost. There were many changes happening in my personal life at the same time. I've always kept a journal, and I write more when I'm going through a rough patch in life, so I started writing in my journal.
A mixture of my personal struggles and feeling lost without school turned my journal entires into a fictional story. Placing myself back in school, back in the drama, and far away from my reality at the time.
That's how my first story was born. A few of my friends from culinary school knew I was writing about our experiences, and they encouraged me to publish. So I did. The rest is history.
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