#ThisorThatThursday with Lynda Williams
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I’d like to welcome Lynda Williams to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Rejection and promoting myself.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Writing dialogue between characters.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Pens, notebook or laptop, coffee, and sometimes music.
Things that hamper your writing: My phone and the internet.
A few of your favorite things: The quilt on my couch, the coffeemaker, and my husband’s sweatpants that I keep borrowing.
Things you need to throw out: Random cables for electronics, worn out socks, and income tax returns from the 90s.
Favorite foods: Strawberries, chocolate.
Things that make you want to gag: Liver and organ meats.
Something you’re really good at: Brainstorming.
Something you’re really bad at: Replying to text messages and keeping succulents alive.
Favorite music or song: 90s rock alt. ( Matchbox Twenty, Everclear, Oasis).
Music that drives you crazy: Heavy Metal.
Favorite smell: Lilacs, coffee.
Something that makes you hold your nose: Inside of the washing machine.
Things you’d walk a mile for: Ice cream, Somersby apple cider, any book by Danila Botha.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: How much of your story is autobiographical?
Favorite places you’ve been: San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver
Places you never want to go to again: The Greyhound bus station in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Hopping on a Greyhound and moving across the country to Calgary when I was 19.
Something you chickened out from doing: Sending my manuscript to agents.
About Lynda:
Lynda Williams’ stories have appeared/are forthcoming in Grain, the Humber LiteraryReview, and The New Quarterly, among others. She holds a graduate certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers and is a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. Her debut collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in September 2025.
Let’s Be Social:
Website: www.lyndawilliams.ca
BlueSky: @lwilliams-author.bsky.social
Instagram: lyndawilliams_author
Facebook: Lynda Williams
Where to buy:
US: amazon.com
Canada: Guernica Editions
