by Tea | May 31, 2024 | How To Be a Writer, Tips, writing
World-building, the kind that submerges you totally into the media you are seeing/reading/listening to, is one of those magical things that artists do and sometimes, you don’t even realize it. Done right, a world-building effort becomes seamless with the story. Done...
by Tea | May 18, 2024 | How To Be a Writer, Tips, writing
When it comes to making character profiles, did your insides curdle? Did you rage, in all your pantsing glory, raging that the writing gods have no call to demand such order to your life? Yeah. Same. So I have no battle to pick with pantsers because in many ways that...
by Tea | Apr 25, 2024 | How To Be a Writer, Tips, writing
“II know I should start up a writing practice again. I just don’t have any time and my books just seem to suffer for it,” I said.My reflection eyed me. “Right.”“What?”“Well, I mean, you have time.”“Yeah, but I can’t settle on a project. And without a project, I can’t...
by Tea | Apr 16, 2024 | How To Be a Writer, Tips, writing
So the title of this blog is a bit of a mislead. It isn’t just genre variation you should read, but many other variations of fiction and non-fiction too. Languages of origin, racial backgrounds, education backgrounds, philosophical thought, etc., etc. All of that...