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 | 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 | Aug 31, 2023 | Tips, writing
It’s been a hot minute since I remembered to write a blog post, and when I thought of one today, it had to be brief and cover things quickly. The joy of chronic illness is finding those pockets of time you can use. Tech and its uses are something I do know a bit...
