#WriterWednesday Interview with Freddy Cruz
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I’d like to welcome Freddy Cruz to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
A few of your favorite things: Good running shoes, books, and soap that smells like eucalyptus.
Things you need to throw out: Junk mail, mismatched socks, the nearly empty milk carton in the back of the fridge.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Me, a pen, and a notebook.
Things that hamper your writing: Imposter syndrome, the doorbell, and my dog’s incessant barking at whoever rings the doorbell.
Things you love about writing: Playing with imaginary friends and enemies.
Things you hate about writing: Imposter syndrome.
Favorite foods: Cranberry-orange scones, Power Crunch bars, stinky cheese.
Things that make you want to gag: Halitosis, tofu, complaining.
Favorite music or song: Anything by Lana del Rey (aka Lana del SLAY, aka The QUEEN)
Music that drives you crazy: Good crazy? Lana del Rey. Bad crazy? Death metal.
Favorite beverage: Coffee.
Something that gives you a sour face: Pickles, but I love them.
Something you wish you could do: Write 10,000 words a day.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Deep fry chicken.
Things you always put in your books: Complicated people, unsavory people who think they’re doing the right thing.
Things you never put in your books: Invincible protagonists who do nothing wrong.
Favorite places you’ve been: Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, San Diego, California, DC, NYC.
Places you never want to go to again: New Orleans. But I’d go again if you were to give me a large sum of money and armed security (yes, I had a bad experience).
Favorite books (or genre): Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Anything romance.
Favorite things to do: Talking to people, running, reading.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Laundry, kettle bell swings.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Former Navy SEAL/author Jack Carr.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: JLo (pics don’t do her justice). And yes, she was nice.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: A reader said one of my books was “like 1984 on steroids.”
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Quite a few seem to think my second book is an autobiography. It’s not. But it IS based on actual events.
About Freddy:
The Greater Houston area has heard Freddy Cruz’s voice for more than seventeen thousand hours across three decades.
In 2022, he launched his own media company, Freddy Cruz Creative Works, and is the host of Freddy’s Huge ASK Podcast.
When he's not in the lab writing or creating auditory satisfaction, you can find him nose deep in a book or snuggling with his dog Sparrow.
