Ask the Author: Barbara Schoichet
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Barbara Schoichet
I love Jack and Ennis, the two men in Brokeback Mountain, who dared to explore a love they couldn't resist and didn't understand. Annie Proulx's groundbreaking short story/novelette, is a must read, and the movie is a must see!
Barbara Schoichet
I usually try to write every day, but if it isn't working for me, I go for a walk and try again. I can be overjoyed with a single good sentence or finding the perfect word for what I'm trying to express. To me, that's a good day. But if that's not even happening I'll go to a movie. If it's a good film I'm inspired to write. If it's a bad film, I think: I can do better than that!
Barbara Schoichet
I get to work with my dachshunds sleeping next to me.
Barbara Schoichet
Tell the truth, and continually try to go beyond your comfort zone. Also, if nothing is coming, don't browbeat yourself. Give it up for the day and try again tomorrow.
Barbara Schoichet
I've move so many times I'm literally a wandering Jew! Now I'm writing about trying to make it in New York and it's called New York Transplant. I intend it to be about transplanting my heart in a new city and hoping that it "takes."
Barbara Schoichet
I'm usually pushed to write in order to get through difficult times. If someone breaks my heart I often work past the upset by writing something irreverent and funny to thumb my nose at grief. That's what Don't Think Twice is all about -- not letting grief "get me."
Barbara Schoichet
I had three major life-changing events happen over a six-month period. I lost my job at Paramount Pictures to a younger writer, my girlfriend of six years left me a week later for her hairdresser, and then my mom died of pancreatic cancer four days after she was diagnosed! And then I turned 50! I had to do something to rebalance my life, so I took motorcycle lessons, bought a Harley on Ebay then drove it from New York to Los Angeles -- alone. I made it back alive and thought I should tell others that they can push the envelope on their grief and find a way out of it, and Don't Think Twice was born!
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