Facebook Chat Interview

Donna Barrow-Green Hello Joanie, It's great to be here!

Joanie Chevalier How are you today, Donna? Are you a night person or a morning person?

Donna Barrow-Green I'm great. The weather is just gorgeous here in Portland Oregon. Feels like spring. I'm more a night person lately...I love when the house is quiet...

Joanie Chevalier I've seen from your photos that you have a few doggies. Who else do you live with?

Donna Barrow-Green My husband and daughter. Even with my little family it seems the days are crazy busy--

Joanie Chevalier I bet! Tell us a little bit about your books and genres you like writing in. I notice that you have quite a number of them!

Donna Barrow-Green Many of my books are historical novels set i the 1940s ad 1950s. They are psychological thrillers. I have a 5 book series spraining the lives of a very dysfunctional family...the story begins with intense trauma and the remaining books examine the way that trauma plays out i the lives of all family members over the years.

Donna Barrow-Green You can find out more about that series here: http://www.donnabarrowgreen.com/historical-series.htmlManage
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Donna Barrow-Green I also currently have the series available for free on wattled. https://www.wattpad.com/user/rosegluckwriterManage

Donna Barrow-Green I've also written a memoir entitled What Remains Inside. It is a pretty intense story chronically a year in my life as a teenager. It is a coming of age story in the shadow of the terrifying terrain of my mother's mental illness... Alexia Monition Lars...See MoreManage

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Donna Barrow-Green And of course there's my new podcast The Diarist....that has been my primary creative endeavor these days...https://thediaristpodcast.wordpress.comManage

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Joanie Chevalier That is so fascinating to write a memoir. Because all of us are affected by an event and it often goes through generations, like a pebble skipping on a lake. You are so brave to open yourself up like this. What would you say to the person who is afraid of going public for one reason or another?

Donna Barrow-Green That's a great question. I'm not sure...it's definitely a timing issue. For me it was very healing because a lot of the experiences I wrote about were never processed and still locked away in that 15 year old part of my brain. I wrote the memoir when I...See More

Donna Barrow-Green I actually interviewed the author on one of my blogs: https://rosegluckreviews.wordpress.com/.../book-review.../Manage

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Joanie Chevalier Let's talk about your podcast, The Diarist. That sounds like such an intense project!! And a project that once you start, you wouldn't be able to back out, ha. How did you first come up with the idea?

Donna Barrow-Green Yes I LOVE talking about my podcast. It is so exciting and fun. I just had a feeling about a novel I was working on--that it would make a good podcast. I listen to a lot of podcasts and knew there was nothing like it out there...The novel was half finished when I started working on the podcast.

Joanie Chevalier How does one listen to a podcast? Is it through something like YouTube, through the internet? I've never listened to one....but I've seen many starting to pop up so that is definitely something in my future...

Donna Barrow-Green The original idea came up in a conversation with a friend who is a writer / screen writer and very supportive of my work. I told him I was thinking of turning the last book in my historical series into a play. He thought I should turn it into a thrille...See More

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Donna Barrow-Green I just attached the original story...so any way I ended up writing a whole new story The Diarist but it was originally based on my book Intetional Fallacy.


Donna Barrow-Green Podcasts are available on iTunes...there is a whole podcast world. You host the audio on one of many platforms, SoundCloud Lysbin, etc. and then upload to iTunes. There are SO many amazing podcasts--some ion my favorites: Serial, S-Town, Alice Isn't Dead...

Donna Barrow-Green There is a learning curve to doing podcasting because it involves so many aspects: sound engineering, equipment, script or interview format, on-line platforms. However there are a lot of resources out there and it is one way an author can get a chance at getting their work out there. It is not as difficult as publishing or a full staged production of a play. I love it!

Joanie Chevalier Awesome! So if anyone has any questions, they can ask you!

Donna Barrow-Green Absolutely! They can message me here or at donnabarrowgreen@gmail.com I would also recommend signing up for The Diarist Newsletter on our website. We will have a lot of extra content and I'm going to be writing a series of articles on my experiences breaking into podcasting....

Joanie Chevalier So I see that you have other people who help you. Can you explain the roles in a podcast, and then, how do you find the people to help you?Manage

Joanie Chevalier These are a few people who are assisting in this project, right?

Donna Barrow-Green Yes! I am so lucky to have 2 co-producers Beth Ricketson and Ryan Bowen. They are professional actors / theater professionals here in Portland and have helped me cast the show, work with the sound engineer, ad work through some of the plot. Beth is co-...See More

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Joanie Chevalier So, do you write it as you go, Donna? Or is it set at the beginning?

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Joanie Chevalier This is so fascinating Donna! So, is writing a podcast essentially writing a play? How do you know how to do this? This takes skill: in writing, in time management, in getting along with people, in improvising....and the list goes on. You are so talented!😍

Donna Barrow-Green You're so sweet. Thank you! I used to do a lot of playwriting and so I studied how to use dialogue to create action. It's so different. One thing I was thinking was that in the series of essays I'm doing is to discuss prose vs. dialogue...to show how to transform narrative into dramatic writing.

Joanie Chevalier I LOVE this idea! It would be SO popular! Yes, please do it (on top of the million other things you are doing, lol)!

Donna Barrow-Green Joanie Chevalier I definitely will! I'll probably post it on my Diarist website and also on wattled. I'll let people know about it here o FB.

Donna Barrow-Green As for collaborating, I feel it is helpful to have talented people I trust working with me. I have had experiences where there was a disconnect and it is the WORST!

Joanie Chevalier I bet!

Joanie Chevalier Thank you so much for your time! We appreciate YOU so much! 

So one more time, Donna, how can people connect with you? And how can people become a subscriber to help support this great idea of yours?

Donna Barrow-Green You can always find me here on Facebook and my website. donnabarrowgreen.com You can subscribe to our Diarist newsletter at thediaristpodcast.wordpress.com and it would be so WONDERFUL to have financial support for our work. Consider becoming a member / subscribers...https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9302225Manage

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Donna Barrow-Green Joanie, thank you so much for this opportunity to talk with you. I appreciate your interest in my work. The greatest thing about being a writer today is all the amazing connections on social media. I am so glad I met you and other authors. I love your ...See More

Joanie Chevalier I knew a winner when I saw it! 💙

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