MEG HOWREY
LA novelist Meg Howrey shares her writing routines with Lynne Hackles
Lynne Hackles
MY WRITING DAY
Los Angeles-based Meg Howrey has had a varied career. She has performed professionally with the Joffrey Ballet and City Ballet of Los Angeles, and been an actor, making her debut in James Lapine’s Twelve Dreams at the Lincoln Center, and receiving the 2001 Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway National tour of Contact. Her third novel, The Wanderers, was published last month by Scribner and now she spends as much time as she can writing.
‘Once I get going on a novel, I feel like I’m more or less always living inside the world of the book, but I do have a part-time job as a massage therapist at a spa,’ she says. Meg recommends physical labour for writers because, ‘Muscular exertion helps balance the interiority of our profession and, in my case, also provides access to cash tips and quality moisturisers.