by Tea | May 5, 2024 | How To Be a Writer, writing
No need for an outline! Fly by the seat of your pants, child! I say to myself…infrequently these days but it used to be very consistent. I was proud of my seat of the pants writing. I thrived on my own dysfunction at one point and I fostered that mess onto my writing....
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...
by Tea | Oct 7, 2023 | how to, How To Be a Writer, Tips, writing
When I started writing, in what feels like a lifetime ago, I felt invincible. I felt miserable. Elated at one turn, frustrated at another. The writer’s life. Though I have met plenty of writers who share openly their utter ecstasy of writing and creating, I have...
by Tea | Jul 1, 2023 | How To Be a Writer, writing
So. Have you ever been told, “You just need to toughen up?” Honestly. How many times? Because me? I’m averaging … a lot. Sensitivity is frowned upon when it comes to writing. Which is kind of absurd when you think about how fiction writing is...
by Tea | Jun 11, 2023 | how to, How To Be a Writer, writing
A while back, I saw some discourse about outlining. Now this started due to a post about George R.R. Martin and his delay on the next book for his Game Of Thrones series. There was this sort of smug superiority going on that if he just had an outline that he’d...
