Trisha Thomas knew she wanted to be a writer “since she could spell her name.” Although she started writing 10 years ago, her journey was briefly interrupted while she was in college. “My professor told me in my creative writing class that I may want to consider a new major,” she says. As a result, she dropped out of school and started designing clothes. “I went back to school four years later and majored in business to learn how to run my company.” Thomas eventually started reading fiction again. She read a Terry McMillan book and felt the writing bug crawl back into her system.
With five books, 10 years of writing experience and a film deal, it has been difficult for Thomas to call herself a writer. “I am just now feeling comfortable saying I’m a writer. It always sounded pretentious to me. I could say I was a designer, no problem. Being a writer is such a high goal and so many people want to write, I always felt I was bragging. Now, I am just proud to continue my writing and be published, especially in this market.”
With a difficult market for many writers, Thomas stresses that writers, “need to read, it is fundamental, I read about four books a month,” she says. Another great habit that Thomas has is running, “I run about four miles a day just to drive out the negative voices in my head telling me to give up and get a real job.” Her next book Nappily In Bloom will be published in 2009.
For more information visit Trisha’s website www.trisharthomas.com.
2 comments:
Inspiring interview! Fantastic post!
I've read Trisha's "Nappily..." series and am looking forward to the movie. And the 2009 book!
I really admire people who have always known what they wanted to do/be in life . . . very cool!
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