#ThisorThatThursday Interview with Melissa Face
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I’d like to welcome Melissa Face to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday. Melissa’s new book, I Love You More Than Coffee is coming out soon.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Laptop, coffee, paper, and pen. Even if I am typing a draft, I still handwrite from time to time as ideas pop in my head.
Things that hamper your writing: Knowing that there are other chores that I need to be doing in order to focus. But sometimes I create other projects even though I’m “supposed” to be writing.
Things you love about writing: I love deadlines because they keep me focused and motivated.
Things you hate about writing: I also hate deadlines because they cause stress and anxiety!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Not having as much time to write as I need.
Easiest thing about being a writer: I have material everywhere, and I keep an ongoing list of ideas. Sometimes ideas come to me in the middle of the night, and I wake up and type them into my notes on my phone. And then I can’t fall asleep for a while. So maybe that’s also the worst thing?? A lot of my writing life can be classified as great and terrible.
Things you never want to run out of: I never want to run out of coffee, chocolate, ideas, or time.
Things you wish you’d never bought: I wish I’d never bought a pair of jeans that were a size too small with the plan of fitting into them. They’re still in my closet. I need to let them go.
Words that describe you: Fun, witty, strong, confident, blunt, opinionated, motivated
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Impulsive
Favorite foods: Salad, pizza, eggplant parmesan, Brussels sprouts, chocolate. Have I mentioned chocolate?
Things that make you want to gag: Meat that isn’t well done
Favorite music or song: Look at Miss Ohio, by Gillian Welch
Music that drives you crazy: Current country music (I like older country artists)
Favorite beverage: Coffee
Something that gives you a sour face: Root Beer
The last thing you ordered online: a Pusheen coffee mug. My daughter is obsessed with Pusheen the cat. As it turns out, he’s pretty great, and this is now my favorite mug.
The last thing you regret buying: A dress that fits me like a tent. It was so cute on the model.
Things you always put in your books: Funny things my children have said or done
Things you never put in your books: Things that I know will embarrass them when they are older or stories that are simply too personal
Things to say to an author: I’m enjoying your book, I related to the part when…
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: How many copies have you sold?
The funniest thing to happen to you: A seagull crapped on my shoulder when I was walking to a waterfront restaurant in Charleston, SC.
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: Not confirming the spelling of someone’s name when I was working as a reporter for the Myrtle Beach Herald. The wrong name was published, and the gentleman was livid.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Jakob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s son)
The nicest thing a reader said to you: The nicest thing was a recent question from someone who bought my book. She asked me to please tell her when my next one is out.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Since I have been contributing to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series for years, my bio has been published in editions all over the world. As a result, I have received many interesting requests from readers who want me to help them with various aspects of their lives. Not always writing related! Still, the strangest most recent thing I have been asked recently is how I plan to compete with websites that are free. She was an attendee at one of my events!
About Melissa:
Melissa Face is the author of I Love You More Than Coffee, an essay collection for parents who love coffee a lot and their kids...a little more. Her essays and articles have appeared in Richmond Family Magazine, Tidewater Family Magazine, Scary Mommy, and twenty-one volumes of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Read more at melissaface.com.
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