The Blogger Next Door Series, Part 1

Interview with Romi Foster

A picture of Romi...or, at least, her shoes.

Photo sourced from her blog.

Blogging is such a lonely experience sometimes. So lonely in fact that I've decided to interview some fellow bloggers to see why they do what they do. Below is a copy of my chat with Romi Foster, the first blogger interviewee in this series. She maintains a blog here, another one here, and likes writing, animals and life with a dash of quirkiness to keep things interesting.

BC: Firstly, why do you blog? 

RF: I'm not even sure myself, I love being able to write about the things I love, on WTWCTW (where the writer comes to write) I just adore being able to write about books that I love, sharing amazing covers, talk about my writing with a wider audience ect. and being able to do Q&A's with authors both new and well known is such an amazing opportunity, I never want to loose this part of my life; and with TDT (The dreamy tree, my other blog) I really just love finding amazing pictures and sharing them, talking about what's happening with my life....it's so nice to be able to do something like that- plus, I've gotten to meet and talk/connect with so many amazing people through it, I'm not just stuck in a round of the same people that I've always known, I get a wider range of people to talk to, and I think that's just terrific!

BC: On your blog you have recently celebrated finishing your manuscript (which you intend to submit to the Text Publishing Prize Competition). Congratulations! How does it feel? Could you let slip a few ambiguous words that may or may not relate to your writerly baby?

RF: Oh thank you Broede, that's lovely of you! I'm still very excited about it, I probably will always still be a little excited! It feels absolutely amazing, I keep thinking, oh, I still need to do my final revision, but so far I keep forgetting to do it! I'll start tonight I think.

So anyhow, it feels terrific to have one of my novels finally (almost) finished and ready to enter a competition with it... it's just amazing!

Hum... It's about a girl who has an accident that opens her eyes and starts to make her question things that had previously happened... vaguely!

BC: You've certainly got me intrigued there Romi--sounds like an amazing plot! Tell me, what inspired it? What kept you motivated during the writing process?

RF: Really? Well that's good! Hopefully, if it's one day published, the back of it will intrigue others alike! That would be fantastic!

Um... well I'm honestly not sure, things lead on from other things- but it started off with me spinning on a chair ( a important thing that occurs in the beginningish part of the story) and from there it just came to me in joints I guess.

Well to that I'm not sure either, what keeps me motivated... apparently I'm a very motivated person, always doing my school work of my own accord ect. (well mostly) so it's easy for me to keep things going- especially because I am home educated so I can just sit down basically at any point in the day and write for a few hours and just let everything flow from my mind and onto the paper in front of me.... and I'm not the sort of person who has really gotten writers block before, I think because I have so many ideas that it's not really possible for me!

But when I write, things seem to just flow, and I occasionally listen to music and that keeps me inspired (I did that a lot for this particular novel).. so really, the more I wrote, the more I kept going... I could never really leave the story and the girl, they became a part of me I suppose, and you can't leave a part of yourself behind, can you?

BC: Very true! So where do you see yourself in 10 years time? What do you want to achieve and experience?

RF: I see myself helping animals, doing re-rehabilitation work, preserving rainforests, working against poachers and helping save animals, probably in Indonesia... but still writing, loving what I'm doing and looking forward to living in Corfu...

BC: Thanks so much for the interview Romi, and of course best wishes for the future.