What do you create? I create stories that are tinged with heartache but end with joy. I grew up devouring the British classics. Jane Eyre is a favorite, and a good example of what I model my writing on. I like a character who is upright, but whose resolve is tested through difficult circumstances. On the crafty end of things, I love embroidering tapestry pillows. I work from a pattern - I'm not enough of a visual artist to create the image, but it does take a lot of focus and dedication to complete a project. Most will be about 33,000 stitches and take me about a … [Read more...]
3Ws – Susan Bernardo & Courtenay Fletcher
Susan Bernardo What do you create? I write poetry and children’s books intended to heal and inspire. I also sculpt, paint, garden, collage, concoct vegan curry, and try to make an eclectic home sanctuary for my family and petite menagerie of two cats, an excitable terrier and our hens Ruby and Raven (I built their coop, too!). I craft the occasional vision board, magic wand or fairy house, and I even created two awesome sons, from scratch! And clutter -- I create a LOT of clutter. I’m versatile. Why do you create? Writing and creating art help me … [Read more...]
3Ws – Karen B. Winnick
What do you create? I create stories and pictures for children bound together in picture books I hope they'll read and love. Why do you create? More than anything it keeps the child in me alive. Sometimes, in fact, I can't find the adult! Looking at the world through a child's eyes, I feel wonderment at nature, animals and so much else. I love children, books, art, animals and history. And my picture books connect me with all of these. What do you consume? Nuts! When I don't want to stop working, a cup … [Read more...]
3Ws – Holly Brown
What do you create? I am the least crafty person I know, and I say this with genuine sadness. I can't draw or paint, I can barely color, I can't sew, ditto for knitting and crochet...the list goes on. But I can create a killer bourbon-based cocktail, with only minor modifications to other people's recipes. Creative copying is an art, right? There's that great book by Austin Kleon called "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative." I highly recommend it (plus, at the moment, it takes the heat off me.) Why do you create? Mae West said, … [Read more...]
3Ws – Nicole Blades
What do you create? I’m a novelist and freelance journalist and a mother. So, I create books and stories and, I guess you could say that that one glorious time, I created a whole human being. And he’s an utter delight. Why do you create? I create because storytelling has always intrigued me. It’s at the core of being a human being. It’s what makes us, us. I write to try to understand this world and our place in it. I write to gain perspective, to learn about things far beyond me, and—I hope—to entertain. I want to give readers a glimpse into someone else’s … [Read more...]
3Ws – Cristina Alger
What do you create? I’m a novelist and a mother of two small children, so I am always creating. Novels, sandbox castles, pillow forts, puppet shows, ice cream sundaes, finger-painting projects … not necessarily in that order. Why do you create? To understand the world around me. Writing is cheaper than therapy and I think it’s a lot more fun. My first novel, THE DARLINGS, was a thriller set in New York during the 2008 financial crisis. I started working on it right after Lehman Brothers collapsed. It was such a stressful time to work in finance (I was a … [Read more...]
3Ws – Anne Korkeakivi
What do you create? As a novelist, as well as an occasional nonfictionist of essays and articles, I strive to create conversations--between myself and my readers, my readers and each other, myself and the world. I construct journeys also, both metaphorically and geographically. I’m an expat writer and inveterate traveler, and my work tends to follow suit: my first novel, An Unexpected Guest, was set in Paris, also Dublin and Boston; my new novel, Shining Sea, opens in Southern California and travels to the remote Hebrides islands off the western coast of Scotland and back, with many stops … [Read more...]
3Ws – Louise Miller
What do you create? By day, I create desserts, and by night I create novels that I hope are funny and true. Why do you create? I have always turned to writing to figure the world (and myself) out. As a kid my diary was my lifeline—I didn’t understand how I was feeling unless I wrote it down. As an adult, I find writing fiction to be a wonderful way to explore questions I have without having to upend my life. The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living was inspired in part by my wrestling with the question would I be happy living in the country? I have always had a longing to … [Read more...]
3Ws – Caroline Angell
What do you create? As a writer and a director, I do my best to create characters by fully exploring the complexity of their emotional lives. My favorite living writer is Elizabeth Strout; I had the chance to hear her speak recently, and she talked about how fiction offers an opportunity to extend our empathy. I agree, and my goal is to create a world to explore my own "what if," and provide a chance for a reader (or a viewer) to say "what would I do if...?" Also, I like to create silly, rhyming songs for kids. Just, like, in my regular life. I never write them down, though, because … [Read more...]
3Ws – Matthew Norman
What do you create? Literary comedies with some seriousness woven in. You may be asking yourself, Aren’t those called dramedies? Probably, but, I hate that word, so, no. I also write a lot of short essays about parenthood and marriage. And I write letters to Bono sometimes. Why do you create? This is a good question—one I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. Anyone who writes knows that writing is never easy, but, for me, it was a hell of a lot easier when I was younger. I had boundless energy, virtually no responsibilities or distractions, and I was still naïve … [Read more...]
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