Author, I Never: An Interview with Kati Gardner

Author, I Never is a new segment in which I interview fellow authors about the writing process, breaking into the industry, and breaking rules. I try to mix it up a little and ask some hopefully novel questions along with some of the old standards, and finish it up with a round of I Never to find out what cardinal writing rules you've broken. 

Question the first: Kati, when did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

 I don’t know that it was ever a conscious decision I made. I went to college and majored in theater, planning on being an actor. But, even then one of the things I enjoyed the most was messing with scripts and writing stories for my friends. I was a middle school theater teacher and I started fooling around with my own characters and developing these stories. Once I had children and started writing Brave Enough I thought that maybe I could do something with this. Maybe this story could do something more than take up space on my hard drive.

Author, I Never is a new segment in which I interview fellow authors about the writing process, breaking into the industry, and breaking rules. I try to mix it up a little and ask some hopefully novel questions along with some of the old standards, and finish it up with a round of I Never to find out what cardinal writing rules you've broken. 

​​​​​​​Question the first: Annie, when did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

I started out writing little short stories in middle grade, but I didn’t think about writing seriously until I went to college. That was when it really struck me how much I loved reading and how I wanted to try and be a writer. 

Author, I Never is a segment in which I interview fellow authors about the writing process, breaking into the industry, and breaking rules. I ask some hopefully novel questions along with some of the old standards, and finish it up with a round of I Never to find out what cardinal writing rules we've broken. 

Question the first: Brigit, when did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

 I knew I loved writing by fifth grade when I wrote a story about a turkey who runs away during Thanksgiving season and forms the Turkey Supremes. But I knew I wanted to be a writer many, many years later, around the age of 21, when I was a frustrated young actress in NYC, scribbling away on poems and short stories when I wasn’t hostessing and auditioning, and the process satisfied me creatively in a way that theater never had.