When it comes to Fiona Robyn I really do not know where to start. I remember that I was looking around the web for design ideas and came across an article about creativity with a link that went to her site and blogspot. Her site written material covers many interesting topics that become visually expressive. I am impressed by her generous creativity with words. She has provided a new outlook on writing as well as promoting life skills. Her written entries about life's funny little circumstances makes us laugh at our own. What can I say? When it comes to expression, the girl has got some skills!

I don't think I could possibly express Fiona's list of accomplishments or define what she has done for so many people properly. The best thing I can do is have you visit her site and blog on you own and see for yourself. One link will lead to another and another until you see that she has had a lot of impact on the web and with fellow writers and poets.

Her blog is very open and entertaining. It is nice to peek into another creative person's mind. It lets me know that I am human first and everything else second. So when you're at Fiona's blog you may find yourself nodding your head in agreement with similar situations and thoughts or just laughing at how funny certain circumstance can be. Either way, her words seem to soothe the soul. -Which really is no surprise as she has helped so many people cope with their own personal barriers and career choices.

Get some quick therapy on your lunch break and visit her site and blog. They represent her very well and may help you discover some wonderful things about your personality.

Hopefully you have landed here after browsing Fiona's sites and links. That way you will understand some of the questions I asked her.

Here are the infamous 10 questions.

1. Has anyone ever told you – you look like Miranda from “Sex in the City”
   Yes they have and I’m always very flattered!
   
2. When did you recognize that you had a passion for writing and helping others. -Or realizing that you can help others with your writing?
   I’ve had a passion for reading for as long as I can remember, and I started writing my own poetry after years and years of being steeped in other people’s words. I wrote the first novel as an ‘experiment’ and found the process satisfying and was pleased with the finished product, and so I’m writing another. Being a novelist was never a part of the plan, but it certainly is now.
   
   It’s difficult to answer the second part of your question for some reason… I’m not sure that I ever consciously sit down and think ‘how can I best help people today?’. Rather I think ‘what’s been interesting to me this week?’. I suppose a clearer way to describe my intention is that my writing will encourage other people to ask questions about their own lives after reading about the questions I ask myself, rather than having any ‘answers’.
   
3. When do you do your best writing? What time of day?
   I like to write in the mornings best – because I have more energy then, and also because I get to feel smug for the rest of the day!
   
4. What song do you love the most based on its writing?
   I don’t tend to listen to lyrics very closely, but I’ve always been interested in de-coding what Bjork has to say, and my favorite album lyrics are the songs on ‘Euphoria’ by a band called ‘Insides’ (they feature in the first novel).
   
5. Why did you escape from the corporate world? Why do you see many artists moving away from corporate organizations?
   Mostly I think I’m a control freak and I like to be in complete charge of the way I spend my days! I also felt I could never be ‘myself’ where I used to work for various reasons, some of which involved being a woman. It would have taken a LOT of energy to change things where I was, so I chose instead to choose my own ‘organization’ around me – my counseling supervisor, my colleagues. It works for me, but there are disadvantages – again I think you need to discover what works best for you.
   
6. What makes you laugh uncontrollably?
   Withnail and I. And a joke I heard on the Simpsons last week – Lenny (or was it Karl?) was looking at his fingers and saying ‘they call them fingers but I haven’t seen them fing lately…’
   
7. What movie keeps you up late when you know you should be going to bed?
   Magnolia. Gods and Monsters. Smoke. That kind of thing.
   
8. What non-writer influences you the most?
   Hmm… in various ways and for various reasons my partner, the DJ John Peel, the therapist Carl Rogers, the film director Mike Leigh… hmm no women that’s interesting!
   
9. If you could spend a week with a famous person, who would it be? Why?
   I would have loved to spend time with Brenda Ueland who wrote ‘If You Want To Write’ – from reading her books she sounds wonderfully opinionated and passionate and I think she’d be a great laugh.
   
10. Hypothetical - you found out that you won the lottery with one catch. You have to spend 1 million dollars in three days. It cannot be spent on one person, place, or thing and it can’t be spent in one day.
    
    *How would you spend it?
    Hmm… there isn’t really much I want that I haven’t got – I’d like to buy a medium-sized house in the country outright, and a long holiday to Iceland. And I really want a life-size plastic cow for my garden – they’re £400 so I could afford one of those! Some to charity… some to friends and family… there, it’s gone!
    

Thank you for taking the time out to answer these questions.

And most of all –thank you for being creative and helping others stay creative. I hope to hear more about you in future articles and interviews. Not to mention, see many books published with your name in book stores across the globe.