Eleanor Tatum

What an inspirational motivator! Mixing Mark Twain and Vivaldi created the willingness to stay at the Pink Dell. Listening to Tomaso Albinoni’s oboe try to out blast Winston Churchill’s “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” is more than the push needed to try a different genre. Overcoming the soothing of Mozart’s (forgiveness needed here) Out of Africa is reflective of Louisa Mae Alcott’s “Love is the great beautifier.”
Starting each chapter with a quote that gives the reader a heads up and is inspiring to this author, clue-worthy to the conclusion, and takes up the hateful word count. I so enjoy researching quotations and I must have classical music, preferably baroque, to write a first draft. Revisions are a different insect. I need to read aloud and I do not like to compete against the masters. Don’t want their toes stepped on, being one myself.
Smile, here, please.
When I was a great deal younger, I haven’t grown up yet (thank God), Handel’s Water Music gave me the story starters I needed to get through High School Creative Writing and years before that it helped with my potty training. Now, when I want to avoid dusting or any such similar activity, I try to find my CD of Favorite 100’s, thereby eating up the housekeeping hour I promised my family.