Spotlight On Writers
Emma Wells
- Where, do you hail from?
- What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?
The coastal towns. I especially love Southwold and writing there when time affords me to do so. There’s something cleansing and stimulating about the sea air that enlivens my spirit.
- What turns you on creatively?
Normally a stimulus of some kind such as a piece of art, statue, still image of a person or place (sometimes both), historical records, etc. Social media posts take my interest if they link to a particular historical era, especially Victorian or Tudor – the more obscure and lesser-known information, the better, as a starting point for me to write.
- What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?
I love ‘enkindle’ and ‘tendrils’, of late. I have used ‘wispy’ and ‘chimera’ in both prose and poetic writings. If I had to pick one word, it will have to be tendrils as the connotations are endless: spidery fingers, tattered ribbons fluttering in the breeze; ghostly hands, etc.
Sentence: Tendrils of longing clinged to the wintery windowpane, hollow and lost.
- What is your pet peeve?
I hate obnoxious attitudes and gristle in sausage rolls! Rant over! 😜 My only other peeve is low-fat cheese – it’s nothing like full fat and makes me hangry (probably an over-exaggeration)!
- What defines Emma Wells?
I am kind, approachable and like to think of myself as loving. I think of others before myself and love treating close family and friends. I’m always thinking of a present project for someone!
Long walks, pub lunches, getting lost in new places, and finding cats to fuss are also up there!
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