I’d like to welcome the fabulous and funny DonnaRae Menard to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding the just right place to market.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Let the story build itself and getting it all down.
Things you need for your writing sessions: coffee, chocolate, cats
Things that hamper your writing: The Three C’s – coffee, chocolate, cats.
Words that describe you: Energetic, Over the top, Willing to share.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Boring. Staid.
Something you’re really good at: Talking to people.
Something you’re really bad at: Remembering I should have boundaries.
Last best thing you ate: Sour pickle, pepperoni, and cheese snacks on Ritz.
Last thing you regret eating: The entire container of Chunky Monkey ice cream ten minutes before I went to bed.
Favorite music or song: The Last Kiss, version by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers.
Music that drives you crazy: Anything that is the same 3 lines over and over again.
The last thing you ordered online: Doll grocery cart.
The last thing you regret buying: 3 months’ worth of the GOLO diet.
Things you’d walk a mile for: The heck of it, good music, a chance to be with my friends.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Anything work related that is 45 minutes of 5 minutes’ worth of information.
Things you always put in your books: food, critters, compassion.
Things you never put in your books: Usually real sex. I like the innuendo, the hint that the reader can build in their mind.
Things to say to an author: You can do this. Tell me what you need, let’s see if I have an answer.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Your idea is trite, your prose repetitive, and your character a joke.
Favorite places you’ve been: Anywhere in the car.
Places you never want to go to again: Up in a four-seater airplane on a sightseeing flight.
Favorite books (or genre): Historical mystery fiction
Books you wouldn’t buy: True crime.
Favorite things to do: Eat, gab, write.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Sit through a self-awareness lecture.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Played spray paint cow bingo in the middle of the night
Something you chickened out from doing: Facing my dad when I knew I was totally wrong. I blamed it on my brother.
The funniest thing to happen to you: I booked a non-refundable flight for a three-day conference, and spent the time couch surfing at a Marriott.
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: Having to stand up in front of a woman I didn’t like and apologize for my bad behavior.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Lyndon Baines Johnson
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: John Travolta.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: When Katie described her bad hallucination, it made me cry.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Have you ever actually been around pigs?
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: I’m a stitcher. I see something I like, go home and make a pattern. I’ve made several wedding gowns and somewhere in the process, I always tweak until I’m happy. Oh, and sometimes forget to ask the bride.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: I volunteered to video a wedding and reception. I got a little tipsy, there was a lot of inappropriate footage.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: There are many, many real-life incidents in my books. I have a large family and can usually find someone to help.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: In the An It’s Never Too Late Series, Katelyn Took is not me.
My favorite book as a child: Beautiful Joe
A book I’ve read more than once: All of JRR Tolkien.
Your favorite movie as a child: The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): The Blob. I slept on the porch roof for months because it was cold out there and the Blob didn’t like the cold.
