How Talk Radio Provides Writer Creative Inspiration - Cathy erway
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Erik: How is hosting a radio show informed your writing?
Cathy: I think that it is a great escape from writing because my writing I try to go back
and edit and I like to spend my time on it alone and reread and work on it. Doing my
radio show it’s so off the cuff, it’s unscripted, I can just talk with these people
and have a real girl talk session. Things come up in conversation and we laugh. I would’ve
never scripted any of that I couldn’t if I tried. It’s a great complete contrast
to writing. I think I want to play that up even more. Ask some outrageous questions.
Because you can and that’s the beauty of hearing and I love hearing talk radio and
you never know what’s going to come up next.
Erik: When you are not writing or hosting your own radio show, who do you listen to?
Cathy: I listen to NPR. Pretty much, all the time. And it’s amazing cause they go through
so many different interviewee, just like boom, boom, boom. Five minutes later you are talking
to a band. Some interviews are longer; sometimes they get together four experts. I think, these
hosts must be the most educated people in the world, getting to talk to that many people
a day.
