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Writer Coco Mellors on finding ways to keep going – The Creative Independent

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Try typing something like "creative blocks", "spiral", "world", "green" or "blue" and our snail will find what you're looking for. Coco Mellors is a Los Angeles-based fiction writer and copywriter. Her debut novel is Cleopatra and Frankenstein. How or when did you realize you’d become a writer and did you always want to be a novelist? I always wanted to be a writer. We had what was a word processor in our house. I would write poems on it when I was younger and then print them out. I had them in a little stack and would do poetry readings to my parents. I always was really interested in writing. And, of course, in reading—I think all writing stems for reading. I feel like writing is the river and reading is the sea, and everything leads back to that. But I didn’t know how to be a writer, or what that meant, or how to make a living. What’d you study in college? I studied writing in college. I took creative writing workshops and was mostly writing short stories, but I always felt called t

On finding ways to keep going Prelude Ryan Pfluger " href="https://cdn.fs.thecreativeindependent.com/hLZM40kxSaCF08EB8emv"> Coco Mellors writer and copywriter Coco Mellors is a Los Angeles-based fiction writer and copywriter. Her debut novel is Cleopatra and Frankenstein . Conversation July 11, 2022 - As told to Jess Focht, 2923 words. Tags: Writing , Beginnings , Process , Failure , Success , Money . Tags Writing , Beginnings , Process , Failure , Success , Money Part of: Developing a creative process Becoming an artist Author From a conversation with Jess Focht Date July 11, 2022 Highlight C

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