the writing process

EACH BOOK TEACH

April 28, 2019April 28, 2019 Treggiarithe writing process

I’m at the start of a new book (#tinyboxes). The muddling beginning when I’m still not sure what I am doing. I have to remind myself that I know how to do this- HOW TO write a book. I also […]

The ‘What Ifs’

April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 Treggiariposts, the writing process, Tiny Boxes

Despite my better judgement, I am currently working on a new Mystery manuscript. Mystery not as in ‘suspenseful thriller’ ala The Grey Sisters, but mystery as in a whodunnit. Boy, are those hard! They are structured, they are convoluted, the […]

The Dual POV thing

June 23, 2018 TreggiariBlood Will Out, posts, the writing process

People have asked me why I constructed Blood Will Out with an alternating dual POV. It just happened naturally. I began with two scenes. They blazed in my mind. One of them was of a girl in a well. The […]

Oh Happy Day!!!

June 5, 2018June 5, 2018 Treggiariall about Books, Blood Will Out, posts, publishing, the writing process

Finally, finally, the publication date for Blood Will Out has arrived! I remind myself how much of publishing is hurry up and wait and I remind myself (far more importantly) to celebrate this moment. I conceived a book, I wrote a book, […]

Crafting a Serial Killer

June 2, 2018June 2, 2018 TreggiariBlood Will Out, posts, the writing process

Yikes. So this ties in with the previous blog about really inhabiting my characters’s brains and how much I enjoyed playing with multiple Points of View. Blood Will Out is in third person (my main character) and first person (my […]

Imaginings Outside of Personal Context

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 Treggiariposts, the writing process, YA

Wow- that’s a wordy title for a post. What I mean is, I am often asked how did you think of that or how did you imagine that person? Like 80 year-old Polish survivor, Grammalie Rose from Ashes, Ashes. Or […]

The Spaces in Between

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 TreggiariJo, posts, the writing process

This weekend I was on a panel at the breathtaking new Halifax Central Library (pictured here), with acclaimed journalist and fellow Fierce Shorts author, Chris Benjamin, talking about writing from life (although isn’t all writing from life? Even if it […]