There's nothing safe about writing a novel it's just too personal and too big. The last five years of my writing journey have been all about taking risks. I kept my first novel, Attachments, a secret for a long time because I just didn't know whether I could pull it off, and I didn't want my friends to know if I failed. It felt so much safer to write for an editor or a client, to not put myself out there. I didn't really write fiction-or anything for myself-until my late twenties, early thirties. (There was one semester when I was studying advanced newswriting, advanced copywriting, poetry writing, and fiction writing.) When I graduated from college, I went to work at a newspaper and was a columnist for about ten years. So I edited my high school newspaper and went on to major in journalism, advertising, and English. I started writing really early-because it was the thing that I always got the most attention for from teachers.
I was definitely a weird girl with my head in a book. Were you that weird girl (like me) who was always with a book and constantly writing story ideas down? Tabitha: I want to know what your journey has been as a writer. If I can't blend in, I may as well be who I am. Once I got over that painful grade-school desire to be anonymous, it became very freeing. When your name is "Rainbow," you never get to blend into the crowd. So after I've gotten through the "is that your real name?" phase, it becomes an asset, I think.Īnd growing up with a weird name kind of gave me permission to be different from my peers, if I wanted to be. People think I chose it myself, and then they wonder what sort of person would choose a name like "Rainbow." (Not someone who wants to be taken seriously.) I think it made my job harder at first, when I was a newspaper columnist, and I don't think it helped when I was looking for a literary agent.īut people always notice my name, and they remember it. That's an interesting question! I think my name starts out as a liability in most situations.
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