#WriterWednesday with DonnaRae Menard
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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.
About DonnaRae:
DonnaRae Menard began writing in junior high school and has been scribbling since. DonnaRae is a hybrid author with both self-published books and working with Level Best Books Publishing, as well as with Of Metal and Magic Publishing. She is the author of Murder in the Meadow, 1970 cozy mystery series, In the Shadow of Pharoah, historical fiction series, The Waif and The Warlord, and the Detective Carmine Mansuer series. New on her list are Beneath the Fountain, Dropped from the Sky, Murder on the Small Farm, The Morality Issue, and Snuffling Up Bones, Book 1, in The Pig & I Series. She splits her time between Vermont and New Hampshire, has an affinity for odd jobs, rescued cats, and talking about her 450-pound lap pig. Check out her website donnaraemenardbooks.com. Find her on facebook and Blue Sky. Follow QR code to webpage.
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