Member Spotlight: Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Fiction allows me to explore how choices with compromises can make someone become the best person they can be under life’s imperfect circumstances.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block? I step away, take a break, then come back to my project. Perspective usually clears the path for creativity.

What is your favorite time to write? I’ve gotten to the point that I can write at any time of the day or night without much ado. I just sit … and writing comes!

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received and would like to impart to other writers? The only people who write novels are those who sit down and write them.

What excites you most about being a writer in today’s age? I like that writing communities are easily accessible through the Internet. Used to be that to find a writing community, you’d have to move to Paris.

Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia’s Song of the Wooden Sparrow, written under her pen name Isabel Tutaine, is out now with Golden Bridges Publishing.