blogging | Tamara Protassow

It’s not your fault you’ve not written your book

Oct 29, 2024 | blogging, creativity, writing

Oh October. You sly, sneaky little month. Just hanging out like “nothing to see here, it’s just me. Just your friend October.” We’re in between the extremes: not quite summer in the southern hemi, not quite winter in the north. Just an in between sort of vibe. And...

Anger & Activism

Sep 6, 2023 | blogging

I’m angry because Sinéad O’Connor is dead. I’m angry because she wasn’t looked after, when she should have been. I’m angry because all the effort; the pain; the raising of her voice; the effort to keep looking at the pain of the world when looking away would be...

…the burlesque of inspiration

Sep 12, 2013 | blogging, creativity

If you’re blogging, you’ll know this already: keeping readers interested is like a sustained burlesque striptease. Reveal a bit, hide behind a fan. Reveal some more, shimmy! I’m an ex-dancer (not like an ex-parrot though), but I was never any good at...

Responsibility and graffiti

Feb 11, 2013 | blogging, writing

I recently read a Facebook status update from my brother-in-law. He’s a fellow wordy type and his update read: Blogging is not writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation. Hmm. Interesting, I thought. I blog. It’s brought up some thoughts for me in the...