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Jo Treggiari

Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers

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Blockage? What Blockage?

February 25, 2010 Treggiariposts, the writing process, writing tips

Lovely and immensely talented author Lucy Coats blogged about overcoming and doing battle with the dastardly writer’s block recently. You can read it and all the useful comments here. Someone raised the question: do fantastically successful writers like JK Rowling […]

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Place Settings

February 19, 2010 Treggiariposts, the writing process, writing tips

aka researching….digging… Before I start writing, I amuse myself (for days and days) by surfing the web and printing pictures which I then pin up above my desk. At the mo’ there is a map of the Vegas strip, a […]

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The Thesaurus Dinosaurus (Extinct?)

February 12, 2010 Treggiariposts, the writing process, writing tips

My other job (not including super mom in tights) is writing resumes for various professional types. I asked for entertainment industry or publishing job seekers because that is my background, but so far I’ve had everything from industrial engineers to […]

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The Remove

January 15, 2010 Treggiariposts, writing tips

I have recently finished my WIP and emerged rumpled and sweaty with a book I call, LUCKY. Usually when I write I have the ending at least all figured out. This time the opposite was true. I knew exactly where […]

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Landscaping

January 15, 2010 Treggiariposts, writing tips

I used to be a landscaper. You might be thinking rose trellises, wild flower meadows, deciding just where the boxwood hedges would go. Marching around the acreage with a brimmed hat and a notebook, making squiggles and hatch marks to […]

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Pick a Thread

January 15, 2010January 12, 2011 Treggiariposts, writing tips

I’m working on something new (possible title- FIERCE).I’m trying to get my thoughts in order. I’d already written about 3/4 of the book but after putting it aside for a year or so while I was working on something else, […]

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The Cuts

January 15, 2010 Treggiariediting, posts, writing tips

Back when I started my current WIP it was a entirely different sort of beast. Very dark, very edgy, very depressing. It was sort of like a slow torturous climb towards a depressing conclusion and then a fast, unrelenting tumble […]

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