The Write Focus: 6:08 / Writers on Writing / Rebecca Olmstead

The whimsy on a coffee cup is Rebecca Olmstead’s motto for her writing life.

In an interview about that technology that started with a tech failure—a laptop crash—Rebecca Olmstead begins by discussing her bravery in moving from Word to Scrivener to Atticus to bring the best experience to readers of her fiction and nonfiction.

Rebecca Olmstead is the award-winning author of the Gabrielle Dorian Mystery Series as well as several nonfiction books and multiple short stories.

Her stories and articles have appeared in Malice, Matrimony, & Murder anthology, The Cellar Door: Dark Highways #3, The Upper Room, Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse, Jr., Live, Now What?, and Houseboat Magazine. Her story “A Deadly Conundrum” appeared in MURDER NEWYORK STYLE: NEWYORK STATE OF CRIME this year.

She lives with her husband and the youngest of their five children in southeastern Washington with Sophie, their dorky black lab, Agatha, a black cat, and host of Jersey Wooly show bunnies.

TIMINGS

00:40 Intro / Tech Failures
02:25 Pacemaker and Tech Successes
6:03 Tech as a Distraction
11:10 Problems with Writing a Series
13:33 Beginning her Writing Career
18:45 Writing (like Crochet) Opens the Unconscious
21:37 the Gabrielle Doran series / Newest Release
24:42 Venturing into another Series and Nonfiction
28:18 Writers Thrive on Reviews
29:18 Closing

Total Run Time = 30:20

LINKS

www.rebeccaolmstead.com

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