🖋️ Author Feature: Scott Russell Morris
📍Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa, USA
🧠 Writing Space: My office on campus, sometimes at home, often in cafeterias for pre-writing
42 Stories Anthology Contribution:
Title: THE BEAST WHO HAUNTS THE MOON-FILLED WOODS
Name: Scott Russell Morris
🌐 Find More from Scott:
🔗 Website: www.skoticus.com
📸 Instagram: @magpiezines
📚 Bio
Scott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He teaches at Cornell College. Scott is the creator and editor of Magpie Zines and the author of the essay collection Points of Tangency. He's obsessed with squirrels and owns over two-hundred boardgames.
🍫 Favorite Sweets
Warm brownies, slightly undercooked, with vanilla ice cream. But also, all sweets. I have an incurable sweet-tooth and love trying new foods.
👥 Do You Have a Writer Circle?
I used to have one, but I’ve just moved (from South Korea to Iowa, USA) and I haven’t really established an artists group yet. It’s on my to-do list. The group in Korea got me through a lot of low points in my creative life, so I really appreciate the power of meeting regularly with people who encourage your practice.
✍️ What’s the Best Way to Write?
To sit down and not think too much about it. I’m a big proponent of just letting it come out. I refine and revise later, but at first, it needs to be a bit spontaneous, messy, imperfect.
🛠️ On Editing...?
I do a little of all of them: I always have a few people—my partner, my writing group—look over the essays and stories I write before publishing them. I have hired professional work for my book-length projects.
💡 What Inspires You?
Not entirely sure that this is “inspiration,” but I get really grumpy when I haven’t had time to do something creative. And it can be really anything: cooking a nice meal, coloring with the kids, doodling on a piece of paper. I just feel most at ease when I am being creative, it’s an excellent mental health thing for me.
I suppose you could say that the inspiration part for me is that I find real pleasure in having made something, and that I am also really pleased with seeing what others make. There’s no grand social goal (though I suppose I have some) but there is just a general overall good when I am being creative and appreciating creative work.
🗂️ How Do You Organize Your Creative Talents?
Very poorly… I have a full time job, kids, and too many hobbies. I have a long to-do list of creative projects I’d love to tackle (zines to make, novels to write, collage arts, book arts).
Luckily, my job as a professor encourages artistic practice, but it’s still up to me to carve the time in.
It helps when I tell my partner what I have on my project wish-list because then she’ll encourage me to go do it. I’ve usually got a sticky-note (or five) with project ideas on my desk at all times. I have art supplies at home and at my office, and I go pretty much everywhere with my notebook, so I’m always ready when inspiration strikes.
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