Creativity Archives – T A BLEZARD: Writer. Book Lover.

Code Purple: From Flabby First Draft to Final Edit.

TA Blezard June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 0 comment

Or…The Many Stages of Writing Beginning At The Beginning For decades, if my writing didn’t start with Chapter One at the top, I thought it wasn’t proper writing. After all, I wrote my first “novel” (well, it had chapters) at nine and got my first publisher’s rejection at eleven. Forty-odd years later (this ship doesn’t […]

Books , Creativity , Reviews , Writing , YA

I Wish I Had Written That: Benign Book Envy!

TA Blezard March 14, 2019March 14, 2019 0 comment

The Green-Eyed Monster According to psychologists, there are two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy. In the former, we feel tormented by another person’s superior position or good fortune and, in an attempt to make ourselves feel better, want them to fail or suffer in some way as a kind of warped payback […]

Creativity , Goals , Positivity

An Ode to February with all its Broken Resolutions

TA Blezard February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 0 comment

So it’s February already. That means one twelfth of 2019 is already behind us. To put it another way, if the year were a clock face, five minutes would have already passed. Were each month to represent a step on the addicts’ path to recovery, we would have admitted its power over us and accepted […]