Readers Writers meme

Captain's Log, Supplemental

Ane Mulligan tagged me!

Update: Amy Wallace and Robin Caroll tagged me, too!

Update: Crystal Miller tagged me, too!

1. What's the one book or writing project you haven't yet written but still hope to?

My six-part fantasy series (I’m totally not kidding)

2. If you had one entire day in which to do nothing but read, what book would you start with?

I read pretty slowly, so I probably wouldn’t get through more than two books. I’d start with something by Mary Ann Gibbs or Norma Lee Clark, two of my favorite Regency romance/historical romance authors.

3. What was your first writing "instrument" (besides pen and paper)?

My family’s old Apple IIe computer.

4. What's your best guess as to how many books you read in a month?

Here’s my dirty secret—if a book doesn’t interest me by the end of chapter three, I don’t finish it. Why?

Because life is too short to waste on uninteresting books.

So ... I probably start about twenty books a month, but I finish anywhere from zero to ten books a month.

5. What's your favorite writing "machine" you've ever owned?

My Macbook Pro laptop. Hands down.

I used to use Macs in college, but switched to PCs when I started working because most biotech programs use PCs. Then I joined a company with all Macs, except I got stuck with one of the oldest Macs in the entire company, and it totally sucked. It made me quite upset at Macs in general, because of that terrible experience.

However, my husband got a Mac laptop, and after using it a little, he could tell me how it was better than his old PC computers. For my purposes as a writer, it seemed ideal.

The learning curve was very steep for me, because my head just doesn’t naturally wrap around the way things are laid out in a Mac. However, Mac users are extremely helpful and there were tons of online discussion boards for anything I needed help with.

I can now say I am extremely glad I switched over. For me, as a writer, a Mac is wonderful computer, far better than my old PCs.

6. Think historical fiction: what's your favorite time period in which to read?

Regency!!!!!

7. What's the one book you remember most clearly from your youth (childhood or teens)?

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Update: Originally I wasn't going to tag people, but people started tagging me left and right.

Tagging:
Sally Bradley
Tasra Dawson
Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
Donna Fleisher
Rachelle Gardner
Jenny Jones
Ronie Kendig
Dineen Miller