Getting to Know You

Thursday's Children creators Rhiann and Kristina are hosting the Like a Virgin Contest. Click here to go to the website for more information. Part of the festivities include the Getting to Know You Blog Hop, where contestants are answering 7 question.

Here are my answers:

1. How do you remember your first kiss?  This is really sad, but I remember my best friend Kathy more than the boy or the kiss. Lol. Kathy and I were babysitting a neighbor kid. It was a summer night, probably around 11. The kid was in bed. Kathy and I were hanging out in front of the house when a group of neighborhood kids came by. Among them, the boy I liked and had been flirting with. Eventually, Kathy went inside and the others left. Just as the boy started to kiss me we heard a muffled scream and then a grunt. He started to kiss me again, when all of a sudden Kathy comes limping and dirty from the side of the house, past us, and back into the house. She apparently tried to sneak around from the back, so she could spy on us. What she didn’t realize was that the homeowners had dug a huge hole on the side, next to the house, to build a chimney to the basement. Needless to say … she ruined the mood.

2. What was your first favorite love song?  Against All Odds by Phil Collin

 
3. What’s the first thing you do when you begin writing for the day?  I really don’t have a routine or ritual. 

 
4. Who’s the first writer who truly inspired you to become a writer?  Don’t roll your eyes, but Stephenie Meyer. I had written a few picture books, but when I read Twilight I became obsessed. I was going through some health issues at the time, it was way to escape. Then I decided to shift my obsession into my own characters.

5. Did the final revision of your first book have the same first chapter it started with?  No. My first chapter changed more times than the rest of the book combined.

6. For your first book, which came first: major characters, plot or setting?  I just started writing and exploring with a couple of characters. I had a setting in mind, but no plot. I wrote a lot, filling a notebook. None of that actually ended up in the book. Also, I wrote the entire first draft in first person and later changed it to third.

7. What’s the first word you want to roll off the tip of someone’s tongue when they think of your writing? Obsessed.

 A weekly blog hop where

writers share their inspirations

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1. Kristina Perez––For the Very First Time 3	2. Inspired by a Royal Douchebag (Whoops. ) 3	3. A Nest Of Words 2
4. Kate Michael 2	5. Dannie Morin--Left to Write 2	6. Inspiration: Adrenaline (Alana Terry) 2
7. Amber Roettger - All About the Firsts 2	8. Cassandra Page - a picture book 2	9. How To Create A REAL Modern Day Superhero 2
10. Vicki Lemp Weavil 2	11. Jaye Robin Brown - Hanging on to Wonder 1	12. Pat Esden--Like a Virgin Firsts 1
13. Inspired by Moving Forward 1	14. Chris Allen-Riley 1	15. the type writer 1
16. Something New 1	17. Lauren K McKellar 1

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