#WriterWednesday Interview with Jim Jackson

I would like to welcome the multi-talented Jim Jackson to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Favorite thing to do when you have free time: Read.

The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: cleaning out old files.

Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Quiet, my laptop, and water.

Things that distract you from writing: Noise, phone calls, and something happening outside my windows.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Marketing myself and my books

Easiest thing about being a writer: Responding to fan emails.

Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Exactly nothing. If I’m awake at midnight, I’m sick or reading a great book.

Things you never put on your shopping list: coffee, hot spices, kale.

Something you’re really good at: I love numbers and am a mathemagician.

Something you’re really bad at: spelling.

Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: teacher

Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: run long-distance races (I was a sprinter).

Something you wish you could do: fluently speak multiple languages.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: cuss

Favorite things to do: Be out in nature with friends.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Listening to right-wing talk radio.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: solo hiking in the mountains (which shows how non daring I am).

Something you chickened out from doing: bungee jumping in New Zealand off the bridge where the craze started.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: I know exactly who you based that character on; it’s {X} (because I had never met or hear of that person, which meant my characterization was evocative).

The craziest thing a reader said to you: I can’t believe I actually liked your book!

Best piece of advice you received from another writer: You can’t fix a blank page.

Something you would tell a younger you about your writing: Celebrate your successes.

Recommendations for curing writer’s block: Skip ahead and write something you do know and let your subconscious work on the current problem.

Things you do to avoid writing: Distract myself checking email, social media, current news apps.

About Jim:

As James M. Jackson, he authors the Seamus McCree series. Full of mystery and suspense, these thrillers explore financial crimes, family relationships, and what happens when they mix. The series includes 8 novels, 2 novellas, and several short stories.

As Jim Jackson, he authored a book on contract bridge, One Trick at a Time: How to Start Winning at Bridge, which was published by Master Point Press (2012).

He calls home the deep woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These days he is a snowbird with clipped wings, retreating only to Madison, Wisconsin when weather and road conditions make access to his U.P. home problematic.

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