There are authors that I’d love to meet. But I wouldn’t want to spend the night talking shop. The social anxiety would kill me.
All events have an impact, some large, some small. I know with a prompt like this, the inclination is to change some big, historical event. I’m going to save one life.
Publishing is broken and there’s not enough time to fix it before my novel comes out. Two words keep coming to mind: Plan Accordingly. I wish I knew how.
In a secondary school I had to teach “Life Skills” classes that has no fixed curriculum, students had no exams, and every student passed simply by attending. I saw it as a chance to do lessons geared towards critical thinking.
Not every society has the same concept of pets. I have to remember that hugging a dog or a cat curling up on your lap aren’t part of this society’s pet culture.
You know who isn’t a good candidate for traveling around the world? Me. I despise spicy food, seafood, and I’m not an adventurous eater. I am no Anthony Bourdain.
I read an interview with a writer who was asked to give advice to new writers, and the advice was simply “Writers write.” That’s what makes a writer. If you’ve ever tried to write a novel, you’d know it’s hard.
Sometimes these writing prompts aggravate me. This one was one of them. Stories, even flawed ones, represent the story that the author chose to tell.
I feel obligated to answer this one. I used to have a travel blog, Vicarious Vistas. Sadly, time has affected both that blog and the places.
From an early age, I dreamt I’d live on a sailboat, I dreamt I’d be an author, I dreamt I’d go to Africa. I dreamt I’d have adventures.
