Tessa Floreano
Jazz Age mysteries by the sea
I recently partnered with Shepherd, a new online service that helps readers fun ways to find great books. I curated a list of five Jazz...
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Occasional musings as I wordsmith my way through life, one story at a time
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Tessa Floreano
Jan 10, 20211 min read
2021 mantra: One day at a time
2020 was strange and complicated. 2021 might be, too, so easing into this new year, I'm simplifying. I put aside resolutions well over a...
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Tessa Floreano
May 11, 20204 min read
Writing in the time of COVID-19
“We live in a culture that says you should be able to power through anything. Life will very generously remind you that you cannot, and...
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Tessa Floreano
Mar 22, 20202 min read
Holophrase: Less is more, except when it isn't
The Medical Dictionary defines holophrase as a "a single word, usually an imperative verb, used to convey a variety of meanings. It is...
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Tessa Floreano
Jan 6, 20204 min read
2020 Writing Mantra
Most people would agree that their creative output falls far short of their ambitions. I would put myself in that box. I know I lack the...
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Tessa Floreano
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Happy Halloweekend
It's fall and the weekend before Samhain and Halloween. I've been remiss in keeping up with my blog so I thought this was the perfect...
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Tessa Floreano
Jul 26, 20195 min read
Self-compassion for writers
When battling procrastination, many writers go straight for the jugular. That is, we fall deep into the well of shame, inadequacy, and...
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Tessa Floreano
Jun 28, 20194 min read
Reveling in mental flâneurie
Occasionally when I get together with my weekly writer group, talk turns to aimless meanderings. Over tea, coffee, or cocktails, and...
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Tessa Floreano
Jun 18, 20195 min read
Three threads connecting me and my protagonist
Do you feel deeply connected with your protagonist’s struggle, despite the ways in which you differ? This was a question Barbara Linn...
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Tessa Floreano
May 22, 20195 min read
Writing 'faction'
Straightjacketing fiction or filling space between the facts? You decide. 'Faction' is a made-up word (not mine) intended to encompass a...
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Tessa Floreano
May 3, 20192 min read
Conferences a go-go: Part Two
First week back after the Chanticleer Authors Conference in beautiful Bellingham, WA. This conference was smaller than what I am used to...
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Tessa Floreano
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Conferences a go-go, Part One
March and April were conference months for me, both as a first-time attendee to Left Coast Crime and Chanticleer, respectively. Each...
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Tessa Floreano
Mar 3, 20194 min read
Fear, my old friend
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
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Tessa Floreano
Feb 13, 20191 min read
Panhandling my way through life
The signature line on my personal email is, Wordsmithing my way through life, one story at a time. However, after reading Elizabeth...
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Tessa Floreano
Feb 5, 20191 min read
What's on my desk?
Fifteen of my favorite things: a lit candle Wonder Woman magnet a timer (for writing sprints) a paper calendar with owls on it Huxley the...
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Tessa Floreano
Feb 3, 20195 min read
Assessing quality of life
In his final 2018 blog post on Gates Notes, philanthropist Bill Gates, 63, said he still assesses the quality of his work, but the...
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Tessa Floreano
Jan 24, 20191 min read
2019 writing mantra
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." ~David Bowie I know we're only 25 days into the new year of...
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Tessa Floreano
Sep 10, 20174 min read
My first author talk
Today, at 11 AM precisely, I was the featured author at the Timberland Library's Author Talk in Shelton, WA. I was a small bundle of...
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Tessa Floreano
May 2, 20173 min read
Into the Hypatia woods I went
Mid-April was time well spent at Holly House in Shelton, WA, where I was fortunate to have the peace I needed to write some difficult...
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Tessa Floreano
Nov 2, 20163 min read
Ale wives and other fables for All Souls Day
Brooms and cats and cauldrons and hats. Typically, you think Halloween, but what if I told you there's more than meets this Eye of Newt....
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