Theresa B. Cyr - Author Page

Writer's Block Like anyone else out there who writes, I get writer's block, but fortunately, I do have strategies that help me work through it. Sometimes my strategies work and sometimes they don't, which is why I need several in my tool kit to choose from. There are times when I can write for several hours straight without interruption, and end up with 3 to 4,000 words in one sitting. Other times I can write and meet my 1,500-word goal for each session. Then there are the times that I can only get a paragraph or two done, or tweak what I've already written and call it a day. I'm not always able to write every day. I work all week as a teacher, so when the end of the day arrives, sometimes the last thing I want to do is think or plan, or write. Some evenings I don't have the frame of mind to do anything other than watch mindless TV and veg for the night. This means that I could go a whole week before working on my book again. Before I can get started writing I o...

For most of my adult life, I've wanted to write, but my largest hurdles were  what to write about, how to go about it, and what to do with it afterward. Before going to college, which is a period of my life that I like to refer to as my "former life", I would write randomly but never seriously. I'd start stories that would be left hanging forever, never touching them again. But writing wasn't something that I took seriously back then, not like I eventually did. While I was going to college, I majored in English, along with elementary education, and became more inspired to write with all of the reading and writing I had to do for my classes. But anything I'd start would again continue to be left abandoned and unfinished. The pressure of staying on top of my classes and making it through each semester took priority instead. After I graduated from college, I started working. I juggled three jobs as an ed tech, waitress, and part-time legal secretary for nearly t...

  Almost a year ago, I sat down at my desk at home, and started writing a story. I didn't know what I wanted to write, but I just started typing away. I began writing about two siblings who had accidentally gone through a portal and ended up in an alternative universe. I loved the concept of arriving in an alternative universe, but I struggled with where to go with the story after a while.  One day I read what I had written trying to reorient myself with the story line and I was stuck. I didn't like what I read and felt I couldn't move past that proverbial wall. So, I did what most people do decided to start over. I made a copy of the story, completely deconstructed it, and created something different. Now my characters would end up in the past rather than in an alternative universe. Now, you're probably wondering why that particular genre? Well, I've always enjoyed sci-fi stories, whether it was in the form of books, TV shows, or movies, so I was drawn to write som...