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I started writing when I was 4.
- Jenna Blum
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#Writing
I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.
- Jenna Blum
#Cafe
#Chef
#Hat
#Head
#Job
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
- Jenna Blum
#Baking
#Book
#Instant
#Take
#Writing
I have a brother I love dearly, although we're not twins! I'm ten years older than he is, so I sometimes feel like his second mother.
- Jenna Blum
#Brother
#Feel
#Love
#Mother
#Sometimes
I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.
- Jenna Blum
#Early
#Former
#Husband
#Man
#Writing
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
- Jenna Blum
#Dad
#Foundation
#Lucky
#Part
#Survivor
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
- Jenna Blum
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#Dad
#Daily
#People
#Television
Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
- Jenna Blum
#I Am
#Me
#Reason
#School
#Street
I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
- Jenna Blum
#Consequences
#Family
#People
#Struggle
When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.
- Jenna Blum
#Drive
#Mom
#See
#Storm
#Weather
I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'
- Jenna Blum
#Experience
#Mom
#Night
#Tornado
#Weather
The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'
- Jenna Blum
#Interesting
#Success
#Us
#Who
#Writing
All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.
- Jenna Blum
#Books
#Life
#My Life
#Way
#Who
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.
- Jenna Blum
#Block
#Endemic
#Procrastination
#Writers
'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.
- Jenna Blum
#Age
#Country
#Dad
#Daily
#Memories
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