About Elissa Bassist
Why subscribe to Tragedy Plus Time?
In each newsletter I’ll offer you:
Practical writing tips for writers who say they “can’t” write
What I learned in therapy
Jokes and how to make them
Thirst traps
Links for upcoming classes before anyone else gets them
Unsolicited writing advice
For paid subscribers
To take monthly generative writing sessions and receive the recording and the recap (with writing exercises and more), upgrade to a paid subscription, $10/month or $100/year or $150 for my meticulous line edits on your writing around 1,000 words.
Look forward to monthly sessions on topics like:
short humor and satire writing
funny personal essays
memoir
tragicomedy and traumedy (trauma plus comedy)
being funny when nothing is funny
writing vulnerably
writing about other people
the art of rejection
productivity hacks
performance hacks
publishing hacks
dismantling patriarchy hacks
Look forward to session titles like:
How to Be Funny If You’re Not Funny
BE HYSTERICAL: On Voice, Style, and Emotion
BE SPECIFIC: Using Details to Begin Writing and to Write Better
Write the Impossible: Sex, Violence, Illness, Poop, and More
Good on a Sentence Level: Marry/F*ck/Kill Your Darlings
Body Humor: Writing and Joking About Your Disgusting Body
Everything IS Copy: Using Life As Material
Write a Book Proposal Without Going Insane
Stalk Your Obsessions
Write Like an Editor
Edit Like a Virgo
Write Like an Idiot (Overcoming Perfectionism)
Your Body, Your Voice: Beat Silence to Write Like Yourself
Shit-Talking Adverbs
Watching TV Is Writing If You Do It Right
My qualifications:
I’m an author, an editor, a teacher, and a Virgo. (Being a Virgo is a qualification. )
I wrote one book all by myself.
I’ve worked in media and publishing since 2007, as a managing editor, an associate editor, an assistant editor, a TV and film writer, a producer, a performer, a speaker, a writing instructor, and a barista.