I’d like to welcome author Cynthia Carver to the blog today for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: A few of my favorite things are a hand drum my father made for me, a print photo of a medicine woman from a native medicine society, and my mother’s corning ware coffee pot.
Things you need to throw out: All the surplus plastic bags I keep around for the bathroom waste can.
Things you need for your writing sessions: This may change often according to the scene I am writing, but I need a clutter free desk zone, my phone to keep the Clubhouse sprints open, and ice-cold water while I write.
Things that hamper your writing: A disorganized area around my desk area hampers my writing. I must stop and clear it before writing anything that isn’t disjointed.
Things you love about writing: Expressing the story from within, knowing someone will enjoy the story that has grown from my imagination gives me delight concerning my writing.
Things you hate about writing: Hands down, I hate editing. My English grammar is not the most fluid. It is a good thing I found an editor that is willing to work with me and make me look good.
Hardest thing about being a writer: For me, the hardest thing about being a writer is getting the written word on the page as fast as my brain spews it out.
Easiest thing about being a writer: The easiest thing would be the creating of new characters. In Small Bit of Justice, the first draft had to many characters. I had to combine them to make it easy to follow.
Things you never want to run out of: Incense and coffee, both make my morning brighter.
Things you wish you’d never bought: The chandelier that is now in my RV. I never use it and I’m not sure I actually like it.
Favorite foods: Tacos, pollo loco, and blackberry cobbler ice-cream or strawberry ice-cream on blackberry pie are my guilty pleasures in the food department.
Things that make you want to gag: Quickest way for me to lose my appetite is to be offered beets, okra, or arugula.
Favorite beverage: Black coffee is my favorite morning beverage followed by ice-water during the day, and Lemonade in the evening.
Something that gives you a sour face: Iced-coffee or a Frappuccino is something that I do not enjoy.
Favorite smell: I enjoy the scent of lilacs in the garden, followed by heritage roses, lavender and purple sage.
Something that makes you hold your nose: Beautiful little skunks make me hold my breath. The pungent scent is disgusting to me.
Something you wish you could do: As a child I was very musical, not a band instrument that I could not play. I let that fall to the wayside as I became an adult and wish I could regain that ability.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Cussing is a habit I wish I had never picked up and cultivated. Why yes, I was a sailor, my colorful words share that without much explanation.
Something you like to do: I like to traditional dance at Powwows.
Something you wish you’d never done: Left an argument with a misunderstanding that may have left the person with a sense of guilt.
Things you always put in your books: Episodes that hinge on being unbelievable that my sister and I actually did.
Things you never put in your books: My sister’s personal epic tales and she has done many. Those are for her to request I write, or for her to write herself.
Things to say to an author: My favorite thing to hear from someone is, “Let me show you what I did,” reader flips their phone open and presents a picture of their review of my book on Amazon.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “Whatever possessed you to think you could tell a story with your bad grammar?”
Favorite places you’ve been: My lifestyle is nomadic and I visit all types of amazing places. Hawaii was my favorite place to live while stationed on Kauai while in the military.
Places you never want to go to again: I have no desire to visit Tijuana, México again. Other places in México, especially on the gulf side I’ll continue to visit each year.
Favorite books (or genre): I write paranormal suspense and love reading historic romance, witchy cozies, and paranormal romance.
Books you wouldn’t buy: My guilty pleasure is listening to Stephen King YouTube documentaries, but to buy horror isn’t something I would do. I did buy his book, On Writing.
Most embarrassing moment: At the time, I had recently married my starter husband, oops first husband. Things had waned with his rigid Seal Team schedule. I decided to greet him at the door when he came home with nothing on but a smile. When I opened the door, it was his supervisor. I slammed the door, put clothes on, and answered the door again.
Proudest moment: When I drove away in my Class A motorhome and didn’t wreck it when I took the corner out of the parking lot. It was such a relief; I smiled all the way to the gas station.
