I admire people who can write with music playing. I’d find
it distracting, for I’d be humming the tune before I knew it. I’m a
concentrator. (If there is such a word....) My little office was once a dinette off the kitchen. It’s small, but I
have a glass door on one side and a window in front of my computer, so I don’t
feel closed in. What the picture doesn’t show, behind me, is a large closet
that houses my washer and dryer—and that clackety clack music is often my
background.
My favorite time to write is all morning, but if I’m caught
up in a scene that’s working, I’ll keep going through half the afternoon. After
that my brain usually turns off. It’s the pattern I followed for Taking the
Tumble, published last year by TWRP, and my new novel, with the working
title of Peril Passion, Peru. (I do love alliteration, but I’ll happily settle
for any better title someone dreams up!)
Eve Dew Crook, author of Taking the Tumble published by TWRP, shows her office bulletin board with computer on left,
printer on right. Photo is her son, sculpture photos are her husband's work. The button in the upper left corner reads, "I
have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy."
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