#WriterWednesday Interview with Kerry Cox
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I ‘d like to welcome back author, Kerry Cox, to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Things you need for your writing sessions: Gipsy Kings on shuffle. Two uninterrupted hours (almost never happens). Beer helps.
Things that hamper your writing: Too many cats. Really good weather. Household chores.
Things you love about writing: The rewrite phase where I’m going sentence by sentence, trimming, tweaking, finding the right verb, making dialog real.
Things you hate about writing: I wish it didn’t involve so much sitting.
Hardest thing about being a writer: By far, the fact that we have to be responsible for so much of our own marketing,
Easiest thing about being a writer: The actual writing. That part comes easy.
Something you’re really good at: Landscaping, especially stone work. I love working with stone.
Something you’re really bad at: Astrophysics. Never got the hang of it.
Something you wish you could do: Speak multiple languages.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: I never regret learning anything.
Something you like to do: I’m physically active, and play a variety of sports. I’ll play damn near anything if there’s a ball and a score involved.
Something you wish you’d never done: Ice skate. That was a humiliating experience I could easily have lived without.
Last best thing you ate: My own recipe for sweet/hot chicken wings, done in an air fryer, crispy and delicious.
Last thing you regret eating: Panda Express. That didn’t end well.
Things you always put in your books: Sharply drawn, realistic characters. That’s the goal, anyway.
Things you never put in your books: Dream sequences. I hate reading them, so I don’t write them.
Things to say to an author: “I couldn’t put it down.”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I don’t buy books, I just get them at the library.”
Favorite places you’ve been: Too many to mention, all here in the U.S. Other than Mexico and Costa Rica, I’ve never been out of the country.
Places you never want to go to again: Florida. ‘Nuff said.
Favorite books (or genre): Favorite genre is crime fiction, but my favorite book of all time is “A Confederacy of Dunces,” by John Kennedy Toole.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Fantasy. Romance. And there is a handful of very successful crime fiction/thriller writers who, in my opinion, are unreadable. But what do I know, they’re the ones in the airport bookstore racks, not me.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: I’ve worked with a number of celebrities in the course of my career as a TV advertising scriptwriter. The nicest, most down-to-earth was Alex Trebek. Marie Osmond would come in a close second. Just a sweetheart of a guy.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Marisa Tomei.
