[Minda Honey, Part 1]: Answering the call to write + the right beverages are everything Ep 1044
Minda Honey is the author of The Heartbreak Years, a hilarious and intimate memoir of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.\nMinda's essays on politics and relationships have appeared in all kinds of amazing places, including Harper's Bazaar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and Longreads. She is also the editor of Black Joy at Reckon, an online outlet where she also helms a newsletter that has nearly 60,000 subscribers.\nHonestly there were SO MANY quotes I wanted to pull from this interview\u2013just go ahead and press play right now\nBut here\u2019s the synopsis:\nHow Minda\u2013the daughter of a postal worker and a computer programmer\u2013did the \u201cget good grades, get a scholarship, join corporate America\u201d thing and realized, it wasn\u2019t for her\nSquaring all the \u201cDavids and Jonathans\u201d--the typical authors taught in MFA programs\u2013with the Tonis and Zoras Minda revered\nThe financial move that helped Minda launch her freelance career\nThe many daily parts of life that count as \u2018writing\u2019\nWhy you NEED to find your writing community\nMinda\u2019s recipe for sitting down to write: Lofi music + a trio of beverages and four hours blocked off\nThe satisfying clickety clack of a specific type of keyboard\nWhy Minda was doing our interview from Mexico (it involves \u201cskipping winter\u201d, but there\u2019s a lot more to it than that)\nGiving up drinking and moving away from home\nFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.\n\nBig thanks to our sponsor, AquaTru.com. Use promo code KATE to save 20% off a reverse osmosis water filter and support this podcast!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices