#WriterWednesday Interview with Kristine Jensen
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I’d like to welcome Kristine Jensen to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: As someone with a full-time writing job, making time to sit down and write my personal work
Easiest thing about being a writer: Letting the words flow once I sit down to write
Things you need for your writing sessions: My iPad with attached keyboard that has no access to email or social media
Things that hamper your writing: Getting sucked into my emails or social media
Words that describe you: Loyal, disciplined, trustworthy, hardworking, imaginative
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Empath, stubborn, overthinker
Something you’re really good at: Coming up with creative solutions to problems
Something you’re really bad at: Sleeping
Last best thing you ate: Gingerbread cake
Last thing you regret eating: Stale tortilla chips at 2am
Favorite music or song: Female vocalists
Music that drives you crazy: Hard rock, some repetitive techno music
The last thing you ordered online: A 2026 calendar
The last thing you regret buying: A book about clearing clutter (it just makes me feel worse about all my stuff)
Things you’d walk a mile for: Almost anything, I love to walk
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: A certain politician’s voice who shall go unnamed
Things you always put in your books: My heart and soul
Things you never put in your books: Murders
Favorite places you’ve been: Croatia, Southern France, Santa Barbara
Places you never want to go to again: Las Vegas
Favorite books (or genre): Fiction and historical fiction
Books you wouldn’t buy: Dystopian sci-fi
Favorite things to do: Reading, gardening, baking, hiking
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Removing a dead “gift” that our cat has brought into the house
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Climbed to the top of a fire lookout tree in a Montana forest
Something you chickened out from doing: Learning rock climbing from my son
The funniest thing to happen to you: I was talking about an ex-boyfriend to my mom and we ran into him and his new girlfriend in a mall — he must have heard me because we both turned red.
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: I misspelled the last name of our CEO in a printed program for the company’s annual event with 10,000 attendees.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: My husband
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Hmm…the celebrities I’ve met looked like their pictures.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: You’re a great writer, please keep writing.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “It must be easy to write a memoir” — my book is fiction, not a memoir, and is set in 1963.
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Designed and planted beautiful flower gardens in our front and back yards
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Most recently, a fancy cake I baked got stuck in the pan and came out in pieces
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: An incident with sheep who get caught in flood waters
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: One reader thought the protagonist in Wednesday Club: A Novel was me, but Ivy is actually very different from me
The first 8-track, record, cassette, or CD you ever bought: Fleetwood Mac
A type of music that’s not your cup of tea: Hard rock
My favorite book as a child: Little House on the Prairie
A book I’ve read more than once: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Your favorite movie as a child: Wizard of Oz
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): The movie Willard — a horror film about rats
About Kristine:
Kristine Jensen is a lifelong writer whose work spans scripts and storytelling for brands and organizations. Raised in South Dakota, Kristine drew inspiration for Wednesday Club: A Novel from the minutes of her grandmother’s women’s club. She lives in Oregon, where she writes fiction that celebrates unlikely friendships and the quiet power of small towns.
Let’s Be Social:
Website/social media: www.wednesday-club.com
Facebook: Wednesday Club Novel
Instagram: Wednesday_club_novel
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jensenkristine/
