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# Write Now with Emily Redondo
- URL: https://justincox.com/blog/2025/11/write-now-with-emily-redondo/
- Published: 2025-11-05T16:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-05T16:00:39.000Z
- Description: Today's Write Now interview features Emily Redondo, author of WIFE MOTHER DRUNK: AN INTERGENERATIONAL MEMOIR OF LOSS AND LOVE.
- Author: Justin Cox
- Tags: Interview, #emily-redondo

## Who are you?

Emily Redondo. A mother, writer and author of [*Wife Mother Drunk*](https://www.amazon.com/Wife-Mother-Drunk-Emily-Redondo/dp/1959524070?ref=justincox.com), an intergenerational memoir. I live in McKinney, TX.

## What do you write?

I write the truth and perspectives of personal life experiences. I write about the big inside the small. I write what speaks in the silence of good mothers and daughters.

## Where do you write?

I write in my car in an empty parking lot or at home tucked in a “nest” created for a sense of comfort and privacy. With a lively household of teenagers, earplugs are a necessity. I never sit at a desk and usually handwrite in a notebook before I type it out. My go-tos are Wordhippo thesaurus site, Google Scholar, unlined mini notebooks that I constantly misplace and go everywhere I do. My perfect pen is colored LePen.

## When do you write?

The only time I won’t write is at night because I continue to write in my head and can’t sleep.

I set a timer for 45 minutes and do my best to write nonstop even if it’s terrible. My breaks are 5-10 minutes, and I thrive on deadlines from my editor to get the job done, and it minimizes my tendency to dillydally like my life depended on it.

## Why do you write?

I write because I must. It’s a need in my bones since childhood, when writing was my way to speak and feel heard. I write to search out *why*, to find truths and connections within the human experience, to make it make sense somehow, to be rebelliously curious about beliefs and opinions.

## How do you overcome writer's block?

Writer’s block is my body’s signal to back up and back off. I accept it when it comes and spend time in a different creative outlet, letting my thoughts breathe and my mind recalibrate. Naturally, my muddled mind opens up and in time, the yearning returns.

## Bonus: What do you enjoy doing when not writing?

Restoring antique quilts, woodworking, laughing at my own jokes, art museums, antique shops, upcycling crappy furniture, learning something unrequired, family silliness.

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*My thanks to Emily Redondo for today's interview.*