{"id":1027,"date":"2017-03-06T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2020-10-11T23:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T23:44:21","slug":"kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Writes Interview-Janet Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not everyday we get to interview our heroes, but for this week\u2019s KC Writes interview I was lucky enough to interview one of mine\u2014Janet Sunderland. This multi-faceted woman came into my life seven years ago and has been a wealth of knowledge, inspiration, and fun from the first day we met.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re ever lucky enough to meet Janet in real life ask her about Mexico, acting with the greats\u2014like William Peck, and how she became an ordained minister. Our conversation meandered throughout her writing life touching on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How keeping a diary under your pillow from the age of eight leads to a life-long writing career.<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1028 alignright lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/janet-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"janet sunderland poet\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><noscript><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1028 alignright lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/janet-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"janet sunderland poet\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/li>\n<li>How reading Doris Lessing\u2019s <em>The Golden Notebook<\/em> helped propel Janet to the next stage of her writing career.<\/li>\n<li>What happens when you grow up in a house filled with books and poetry.<\/li>\n<li>I loved to hear that even she still feels like she\u2019s \u201cdoing [writing] wrong,\u201d and her solution for how to get back to doing it \u201cright.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Why it\u2019s important to learn to trust your body when it comes to your writing.<\/li>\n<li>What building a house and writing have in common.<\/li>\n<li>Why <em>The Plot Whisperer<\/em> by Martha Alderson gave her a new way to look at her work.<\/li>\n<li>What reading across genres has taught her about writing non-fiction.<\/li>\n<li>How she became the owner of \u201cdwindle.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And finally I got to ask someone to define \u201cliterary\u201d writing for me, because I\u2019ll tell you that one\u2019s had me stumped for a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Listen to the whole interview at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/jessica-conoley\/episodes\/2017-03-06T14_28_03-08_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/jessica-conoley\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Janet had a whole slew of KC Creatives to keep our eye on including writers: <a href=\"https:\/\/annieraab.com\/\">Annie Raab<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Writer-Edwin-Frownfelter\/dp\/1496188624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Frownfelter<\/a>, Jacquline Guidry, and our Kansas City film makers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/patrick.rea.7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Rea<\/a>, and the husband-wife team of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3719393\/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra L. Martin <\/a>&amp; Isaac Alonge.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of Janet\u2019s work at <a href=\"https:\/\/janetsunderland.com\/\">https:\/\/janetsunderland.com\/<\/a> follow her on twitter @jesunderland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not everyday we get to interview our heroes, but for this week\u2019s KC Writes interview I was lucky enough to interview one of mine\u2014Janet Sunderland. This multi-faceted woman came into my life seven years ago and has been a wealth of knowledge, inspiration, and fun from the first day we met.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,54],"tags":[48,94,95,96,97,98,25,51,99,100,101,102,103,104,105],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KC Writes Interview-Janet Sunderland - Jessica Conoley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Janet Sunderland, Kansas City writer, poet, actor, and more, sits down with Jessica Conoley as part of the KC Writes interview series.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KC Writes Interview-Janet Sunderland - Jessica Conoley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Janet Sunderland, Kansas City writer, poet, actor, and more, sits down with Jessica Conoley as part of the KC Writes interview series.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jessica Conoley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-06T22:47:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-11T23:44:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jessica Conoley\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jessica Conoley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland\/\",\"name\":\"KC Writes Interview-Janet Sunderland - Jessica Conoley\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-06T22:47:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-11T23:44:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/#\/schema\/person\/1887901898e0e40cf065694fce98a123\"},\"description\":\"Janet Sunderland, Kansas City writer, poet, actor, and more, sits down with Jessica Conoley as part of the KC Writes interview series.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-janet-sunderland\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/\",\"name\":\"Jessica Conoley\",\"description\":\"Author, Editor, Speaker, &amp; 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