I hate these favorites questions. I don’t play favorites. But I know, as someone who now writes YA, I’m going to run across this question again. So, I’m giving it a try. But it’s not definitive. From the time I could read, which is before I remember
READ MORE →Technology: is it making your writing easier or standing in the way of your creative side? By Rebecca Cantrell A few years ago I got an iphone. My friends without smart phones mock me for my addiction. I use the calendar, check my email, find out where
READ MORE →My favorite superhero? The Tick. Hands down. For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, The Tick was a cartoon that ran on Saturday mornings on Fox in the 90s. Even though I was a grownup by then (I owned my own car, house, and cat),
READ MORE →What is your writing beverage of choice? My beverage of choice: Iced Soy Chai. My favorite chais are Tazo and Stash, plus whatever they use for the vanilla chai up at the Aloha Theater in Kainaliu. Sadly, they’re not open all morning or I’d be up there
READ MORE →What’s your favorite scene your editor asked you to cut? OK, who of us has NOT been looking forward this question? We finally get to pull out that stuff we always wanted to show. I tend to write in a skeletal form and add layers, so my
READ MORE →If you couldn’t write, what would your creative outlet be? As a writer, I love telling stories with words. Taking that away would be very difficult for me. Assuming I had to do something else, I would tell stories with pictures and sounds. I would be a
READ MORE →What big name author is enough to get you to a conference? By Rebecca Cantrell I thought I was going to be the first curmudgeon of the week, but CJ beat me to it. She’s right though. I don’t go to conferences hoping to meet big name
READ MORE →If you were to write a nonfiction book, what would your topic be? As a technical writer I wrote literally thousands of nonfiction pages. I mean, I thought they were nonfiction while I was writing them, or that they would one day be nonfiction. Because I wrote
READ MORE →What fictional attorney would you hire to represent you if you ever get caught? I’d go straight for Perry Mason. He’s never lost a case, and I like that track record. He’s definitely gotten defendants out of tighter pinches than the one I’d be in. It’ll be
READ MORE →Here’s my blog post on it on the New York Times parenting blog: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/parenting-can-make-you-better-at-work/?scp=1&sq=rebecca%20cantrelll&st=cse Somebody had to say it: parenting is a lot of fun!
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