I’d like to welcome author, Anne Moss Rogers to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.

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Things you need for your writing sessions: Quiet, uninterrupted space although I have written in chaotic situations

Things that hamper your writing: Distractions. So I put my computer on “do not disturb.” Best feature ever.

Things you love about writing: The page never taunts me, spits at me, or chastises me for writing how I feel.

Things you hate about writing: Interruptions that take me out of the moment

Hardest thing about being a writer: The time spent sitting alone

Easiest thing about being a writer: Accessibility to our job and how mobile it is. There is always need for writers and writing

Things you never want to run out of: Toilet paper

Things you wish you’d never bought: A Disney timeshare

Words that describe you: Passionate, emotionally naked, bold, persistent.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Overbooked, tireless.

Favorite smell: Fresh cedar and coffee (although I don’t drink coffee)
Something that makes you hold your nose: Skunk. Worst smell ever

Something you’re really good at: Creative problem solving and ideas
Something you’re really bad at: The financial side of things (although I’m working on that)

Something you wish you could do: Perform on a trapeze. I love how they fly through the air flipping

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: I love learning, so I can’t fathom that anything I would learn wouldn’t have value of some kind. Even things I detest doing.

Favorite places you’ve been: Vienna. We had an unforgettable dinner in a palace with the best table of people I’ve ever sat with in my life.
Places you never want to go to again: Anywhere but an ocean cruise

Favorite books (or genre): I read from almost all genres. Bonfire of the Vanities and Man’s Search for
Meaning are two of my faves.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Anything Sci Fi

Favorite things to do: Public Speaking, getting together w/ friends/family, learning new things
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing:Taxes (But I do them)

Best thing you’ve ever done: Starting my blog Emotionally Naked, and deciding to go public with my story and the topic of suicide.
Biggest mistake: Making a financial decision when I was stressed that turned out to be an elaborate scam.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Fought a man who attacked me at knifepoint for the purpose of rape and murder.

Something you chickened out from doing: I was sitting with some girls in a gym. They asked me to sit with them on the bleachers and I did, excited to be included since I was new. Someone I had been friends with at the new school walked in and all the girls sat there making fun of her eyebrows which she had overplucked. And there I sat shocked because they had planned this and wanted me sitting there to further her humiliation. My regret is that my shock and desire to be accepted prevented me from standing up for her. I’ve never ever been cruel but my lack of action here has been a regret.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I lost my own son to suicide 15 years ago, and although I have read so many books about this kind of loss, nothing has touched me as deeply as this.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “difficult to consider the pain for this family.” (I can’t figure out what it means but if that’s the worst review, then I’m lucky)

About Anne

Anne Moss Rogers is an emotionally naked® TEDx storyteller, the 2019 YWCA Pat Asch Fellow for social justice, and author of the book, Diary of a Broken Mind. Despite her family’s best efforts, Anne Moss’ 20-year-old son Charles died by suicide June 5, 2015 after many years of struggle with anxiety, depression, and
ultimately addiction.

Anne Moss chronicled her family’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral and her blog, Emotionally Naked, has been read over a million times. After receiving a message from a young lady who wrote that one of her blog posts saved her life, she sold her digital marketing business and followed her purpose of preventing suicide, and helping people find life after loss.

She has been interviewed by the New York Times and was the only non-clinician ever invited to speak
at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Journalism, she currently lives in Richmond, VA with her husband. Her surviving son, Richard,
works in LA as a editor and filmmaker.

Social Media Links

Website

IG: https://www.instagram.com/annemossrogers/

TW: https://twitter.com/AnneMossRogers

FB: https://facebook.com/EmotionallyNaked

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalmarketingexpertise/

Free ebook downloads: https://annemoss.com/resources-2/free-ebooks/

Resource pages: https://annemoss.com/resources-2/

Book Links
Please buy from a local bookstore when you can. Available in ebook and soon audio book.

https://annemoss.com/diaryofabrokenmind/

Fountain Book Store: https://bit.ly/diarybrokenmind

Beach Glass Books: http://www.beachglassbooks.com/books/diaryofabrokenmind