Inspiration, Research, and Characters

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 19 Comments

  You all really know how to make a blog book party fun. Thank you so much for showing up and for all the great questions you’re asking. I picked three to answer on tonight’s post. If  you’ve already read them in the comments, you already know my answers. But maybe some of you waited to see some of the …

Hobbies, Ideas, and Inspiration from a Writer’s Perspective

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 4 Comments

When I posted my “Who Are You?” answers on Sunday, I invited you readers to ask any questions I didn’t answer. A few of you did that. Lavon asked, “Do you have other hobbies, besides writing?” I wouldn’t call writing a hobby, but my work. However, it is work I can do at home and somewhat set my own schedule. …

Find out more about Me, Jocie Brooke

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, Heart of Hollyhill 6 Comments

  Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill: Can you believe that somebody wanted to interview me? Me? I’m all the time interviewing other people around in Hollyhill for the paper, but I never expected anyone to want to interview me. And not for the Hollyhill Banner, but for some other magazine or something. Wes says I must be famous, and …

What’s Your Question?

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 8 Comments

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.  ~Jane Goodall I invited you all to ask me a question about me or my writing last week. And a couple of you took me up on it. Whenever I give a talk about my books, the part I always like …

Questions, We Get Questions

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 9 Comments

I asked for more questions and got some. Emily came up with varied ones. So here goes. Q 1 – Do you have any funny stories about raising chickens when you were growing up? I could come up with lots of chicken stories. Not sure how funny any of them would be. I did have a pet bantam rooster that …