My Writing Process: The Blog Tour
Best tour ever, because I don’t have to leave my couch. I mean OFFICE! Thank you, world poet Sweta Vikram, for including me on this tour! If you want to know how a truly prolific writer manages it all, read Sweta’s response to the Writing Process Blog Tour , here. While you’re there, check out her work. Or buy her latest book, No Ocean Here. So good.
What am I working on?
I’m working on the follow-up to my memoir, Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar (May 2014, Greenpoint Press). Another memoir, this one is about moving to India to study yoga and meditation, tentatively titled, Meeting My Inner Bitch.
How does my work differ from others of its genre?
How is one snowflake different from the next? Every writer has a unique voice, just like every person.
Why do I write what I do?
I write because it’s the one thing I’ve consistently enjoyed doing my entire life. It’s where I enter that meditative state and can lose myself for hours. It’s bliss. There is no premeditated what. I have way more ideas for things I’d like to write.
How does my writing process work?
My writing doesn’t always work. My process is to just keep going at a thing ’til I can’t stand it anymore, in which case I put it aside to work on later. Or the deadline comes.
The ones to watch next?
Karmen Lizzul, creative director at Family Circle magazine and a Professional Coach trained through IPEC, the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching which is ICF accredited. She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine arts. She has won numerous awards in Graphic Design and is currently finishing up her first novel. Check out her blog here, and her radio show here. Her mission is to inspire, connect and sometimes light a fire under your ass!
Karen Reid was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated at the tender age of 23 to Australia with her then husband and two baby boys. Another move, two more children and eight years later, she moved to Doha, Qatar where she lived for 12 years. Currently in Perth, Karen is the Editor of SCRIBE magazine, an inspirational online education publication, and also works for Valued Lives, a non profit organization that helps vulnerable and disabled people have genuine control over the services they receive. To read Karen’s blogs click on their respective titles: Karen-Ology (whatever is in my heart to share) and A Compulsive Story (her life’s journey with the disease of compulsive overeating).
Julie Threlkeld is a writer, storyteller and comedian. She appears regularly in storytelling shows in and around New York City and on storytelling podcasts such as The RISK! Show. She has written about running for Runner’s World and Running Times, and about mental health for The New York Times. Her writing and performance can be found at ModernStories.com.
