Monday, February 25, 2013

Recharge: Day One

I'm participating in Sara Biren's Recharge Winter Writing Retreat


I'm happy to say that I'm getting a late start on introducing myself because I've actually been busy writing today.

Icebreaker-

What is your name?
Carrie Monroe

What do you write?
I write for kids. I am currently working on a YA manuscript but I also try to write a picture book draft every month and shorter pieces for children's magazines. I also like Middle Grade fiction and have written poetry in the past.

How long have you been writing?
I've wanted to be a writer for a long time. I wrote for my high school newspaper and spent most of my teen years dreaming of someday working for Sassy magazine. I went to college where I studied theater but the desire to write never really left me and I started writing poems and stories a little over ten years ago. I wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo in 2007 and that was the beginning of the idea that I could write a novel.

What location have you chosen for your retreat?
Minnesota winter, no offense but I am tired of you. I've decided to spend my writing retreat on a houseboat in Sausalito. 


How did you come up with the idea or find inspiration for your current WIP?  
My inspiration for my current WIP came from feeling stuck. I felt stuck in my previous WIP, I also sometimes feel like I haven't seen enough of the world. My business is full of meeting new people but also goodbyes when shows are over. I think I was feeling like I was always saying goodbye and never getting to go places so I started writing about a character who leaves her small town in Minnesota to go to New York City.

3 comments:

Barbara Watson said...

Love the idea of this Winter Writer's Retreat. And I, too, would leave MN with you -- except I'd hang in my own private California beach house and write on the patio.

Sara Biren said...

OMG, I totally wanted to write for Sassy magazine, too! One problem - I was just not cool (or sassy) enough. That and they stopped publishing it. Oooh, a project? Should we revive Sassy?

I'm so glad that you've been kicking butt with your writing this week! And love the houseboat idea.

Gina Gao said...

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