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1. What do you write, how often do you write, and how long have you been writing? I've written two novels (finished in 2009 and 2010). At current, I write a monthly grammar/style lesson for my advertising agency. 2. If you write professionally, do you also write as a hobby, or vice versa? And if so how do the experiences affect each other? Currently the monthly lesson thing is in addition to my work duties. I saw a niche and filled it. The two novels were in my free time away from work. 3. What sort of training/education have you received that influences your writing? Between experience and education, which is more important for writing? I double majored in magazine journalism and history, both of which required a great deal of writing. I wrote a thesis on Tang Dynasty literature for my history degree. That...didn't do a drat thing for my writing career, really. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the experience, but it only resulted in a diploma. Experience, experience, experience. Helped me discover my own voice outside of the confines of writing to what a professor would like. 4. What is your proudest moment as a writer? Or, alternatively, what do you hope to accomplish as a writer? Finishing and self-publishing my first book. It's not really all that good, and I barely earned three figures from it, but putting my name to a finished product was important to me. 5. Who do you look up to as a role model for writing and why? If you have no role model, then why not? Charles Ives. I loathe the tortured-artist motif, and Ives was the exact opposite of it. (Though he's a composer.) 6. If you can only give one piece of advice to aspiring writers, what would that be? Tip your bartender.
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