#WriterWednesday with Carol Light
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I’d like to welcome Carol Light to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Figuring out what to do in the middle of a book when I realize my outline isn’t working or wasn’t as complete as I thought it was.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Believe it or not, writing the first scene. I’ll probably revise it fifty times or even replace it, but the words usually flow, and it feels joyful starting a new book.
Things you need for your writing sessions: I need a cup of tea (English Breakfast or Darjeeling) and a clear mind. That’s why mornings are my best writing time.
Things that hamper your writing: Low energy, as when I try to write some late afternoons. Also, frequent interruptions or loud noises nearby.
Words that describe you: Kind, honest, creative, positive, funny.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Stubborn, quiet (although I’m not as quiet as I used to be).
Last best thing you ate: A wonderful flan at a restaurant where my niece took me for my birthday.
Last thing you regret eating: Sour grapes (yes, really!). Why did I keep eating them??
Favorite music or song: I love Christmas music and anything by the Eagles.
Music that drives you crazy: Rap, Hip Hop, elevator music.
The last thing you ordered online: Can’t Go Home, a mystery by Melinda DiLorenzo.
The last thing you regret buying: A pair of pants that I never wear.
Things you’d walk a mile for: A meal with friends, a friend in need, a good cause.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Snakes, obnoxious people (especially loud, drunk ones), fingernails on a chalkboard.
Things you always put in your books: Humor, a female protagonist (although I have male protagonists too), food.
Things you never put in your books: Sadism, violence toward children or animals, explicit sex.
Things to say to an author: “I LOVED your book!” “How are you able to be so creative?” (or brilliant is another good word to use).
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I’ve read better books than yours” (no doubt, but do you have to say it to my face?), or “I don’t ever read mysteries” (so why are you here??).
Favorite places you’ve been: Australia, especially Victoria; Italy.
Places you never want to go to again: Tijuana, Mexico. The poverty there so close to the U.S. border made me very sad.
Favorite books (or genre): Mysteries, of course, although I read widely in fiction and nonfiction.
Books you wouldn’t buy: I’m not into fantasy, horror, or true crime.
My favorite book as a child: I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Some of her childhood experiences were similar to my grandmother’s, including living in a sod house.
A book I’ve read more than once: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer. It’s the book I pick up when I need a positive boost and inspiration to go after my goals.
About Carol:
Carol Light is an avid reader and writer of mysteries. Author of the Cluttered Crime mysteries, she loves creating amateur sleuths and complicating their normal lives with a crime that they must use their talents and wits to solve. She’s traveled worldwide and lived in Australia for eight years, teaching high school English and learning to speak “Strine.” Florida is now her home. If she’s not at the beach or writing, you can find her tackling quilting in much the same way that she figures out her mysteries—piece by piece, clue by clue.
Carol’s latest novel and the first in her new Southern Secrets mysteries is Deadly Inheritance. For an excerpt and buy links, click here: https://tulepublishing.com/books/deadly-inheritance/
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