Stee Tee
@tontonstee.bsky.social
Storyteller with my heart in several places: Detroit, New York, Belgium, Ireland, France and the UK.
English and French-speaking, with enough knowledge of Dutch and Spanish to be dangerous.
Inspirations: Bombeck, Baldwin, Basquiat.
English and French-speaking, with enough knowledge of Dutch and Spanish to be dangerous.
Inspirations: Bombeck, Baldwin, Basquiat.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Please post something you read at an age far too young...that may have informed your writing more than you'd like to admit. #WritingCommunity #writers #amwriting #guiltypleasure
September 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Please post something you read at an age far too young...that may have informed your writing more than you'd like to admit. #WritingCommunity #writers #amwriting #guiltypleasure
I just saw a video with AI-generated subtitles. The audio said "influencer" while the subtitle read "influenza".
Brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #AI
Brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #AI
September 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I just saw a video with AI-generated subtitles. The audio said "influencer" while the subtitle read "influenza".
Brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #AI
Brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #AI
Between boycotting CBS/Paramount over Colbert and now ABC/Disney over Kimmel, it seems like a good time to read more books…bought from independent booksellers, of course.
#WritingCommunity #reading #amwriting #boycott #writer #books
#WritingCommunity #reading #amwriting #boycott #writer #books
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Between boycotting CBS/Paramount over Colbert and now ABC/Disney over Kimmel, it seems like a good time to read more books…bought from independent booksellers, of course.
#WritingCommunity #reading #amwriting #boycott #writer #books
#WritingCommunity #reading #amwriting #boycott #writer #books
What book or author did you read at entirely too young an age...and today you side-eye your parents for their negligence?
#WritingCommunity #writing #reading
#WritingCommunity #writing #reading
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What book or author did you read at entirely too young an age...and today you side-eye your parents for their negligence?
#WritingCommunity #writing #reading
#WritingCommunity #writing #reading
On my list of freaky lyrics that I never thought about - Spice Girls' "Wannabe":
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."
I have NEVER made that a requirement in past romances.
#WritingCommunity #lyrics #writing
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."
I have NEVER made that a requirement in past romances.
#WritingCommunity #lyrics #writing
September 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
On my list of freaky lyrics that I never thought about - Spice Girls' "Wannabe":
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."
I have NEVER made that a requirement in past romances.
#WritingCommunity #lyrics #writing
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."
I have NEVER made that a requirement in past romances.
#WritingCommunity #lyrics #writing
Watching Cardi B on the witness stand, I can't help but think of Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny." Cardi needs to do a remake...
#BlackSky
#BlackSky
August 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Watching Cardi B on the witness stand, I can't help but think of Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny." Cardi needs to do a remake...
#BlackSky
#BlackSky
The search for a new James Bond continues.
But what original author Ian Fleming created was a product of an era far more sexist, racist, and imperialist. So he's been updated.
As a writer, would you like your characters continue as IP for new adaptations beyond your lifetime?
#WritingCommunity
But what original author Ian Fleming created was a product of an era far more sexist, racist, and imperialist. So he's been updated.
As a writer, would you like your characters continue as IP for new adaptations beyond your lifetime?
#WritingCommunity
August 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The search for a new James Bond continues.
But what original author Ian Fleming created was a product of an era far more sexist, racist, and imperialist. So he's been updated.
As a writer, would you like your characters continue as IP for new adaptations beyond your lifetime?
#WritingCommunity
But what original author Ian Fleming created was a product of an era far more sexist, racist, and imperialist. So he's been updated.
As a writer, would you like your characters continue as IP for new adaptations beyond your lifetime?
#WritingCommunity
Confession that might get my Black card taken: I'm OK not being invited to the cookout.
As an introvert who doesn't drink, I'm good for an hour if a card game is going. After that, folks are tipsy and I'm getting my plate to-go.
#BlackSky
As an introvert who doesn't drink, I'm good for an hour if a card game is going. After that, folks are tipsy and I'm getting my plate to-go.
#BlackSky
August 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Confession that might get my Black card taken: I'm OK not being invited to the cookout.
As an introvert who doesn't drink, I'm good for an hour if a card game is going. After that, folks are tipsy and I'm getting my plate to-go.
#BlackSky
As an introvert who doesn't drink, I'm good for an hour if a card game is going. After that, folks are tipsy and I'm getting my plate to-go.
#BlackSky
What film's plot have you always had a problem with? For me, it was the 90s movie about the pig 🐖 “Babe."
I was like, "Why is this pig helping the farmer? Don't pig know that farmer eats pig's people? Pig 🐷 is a Sellout!"
#WritingCommunity #writing #film #plot
I was like, "Why is this pig helping the farmer? Don't pig know that farmer eats pig's people? Pig 🐷 is a Sellout!"
#WritingCommunity #writing #film #plot
August 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What film's plot have you always had a problem with? For me, it was the 90s movie about the pig 🐖 “Babe."
I was like, "Why is this pig helping the farmer? Don't pig know that farmer eats pig's people? Pig 🐷 is a Sellout!"
#WritingCommunity #writing #film #plot
I was like, "Why is this pig helping the farmer? Don't pig know that farmer eats pig's people? Pig 🐷 is a Sellout!"
#WritingCommunity #writing #film #plot
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#Netflix is diabolical. I'm watching a tell-all documentary about "The Biggest Loser" - which is interrupted by a commercial for Hostess Twinkies and Ding Dongs.
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#Netflix is diabolical. I'm watching a tell-all documentary about "The Biggest Loser" - which is interrupted by a commercial for Hostess Twinkies and Ding Dongs.
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
August 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In translating languages, you're often re-writing text as many concepts don't translate literally.
Example: the Dutch equivalent for the insult "a55hole" is actually their word for scrotum.
What foreign word/phrase you know has a strange literal translation in English?
#WritingCommunity #writing
Example: the Dutch equivalent for the insult "a55hole" is actually their word for scrotum.
What foreign word/phrase you know has a strange literal translation in English?
#WritingCommunity #writing
August 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In translating languages, you're often re-writing text as many concepts don't translate literally.
Example: the Dutch equivalent for the insult "a55hole" is actually their word for scrotum.
What foreign word/phrase you know has a strange literal translation in English?
#WritingCommunity #writing
Example: the Dutch equivalent for the insult "a55hole" is actually their word for scrotum.
What foreign word/phrase you know has a strange literal translation in English?
#WritingCommunity #writing
I've just seen a recent full-body photo of Dean Cain.
It took 30 years, but I can now say I finally have a better body than Superman.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
It took 30 years, but I can now say I finally have a better body than Superman.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I've just seen a recent full-body photo of Dean Cain.
It took 30 years, but I can now say I finally have a better body than Superman.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
It took 30 years, but I can now say I finally have a better body than Superman.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
Weird thing about my New York writer pals: they assume NYC is the center of the universe.
So in stories they write taking place in NYC, they neglect to let the reader know they're in NYC even when that would be useful information.
Get out more, New Yorkers!
#WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
So in stories they write taking place in NYC, they neglect to let the reader know they're in NYC even when that would be useful information.
Get out more, New Yorkers!
#WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
August 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Weird thing about my New York writer pals: they assume NYC is the center of the universe.
So in stories they write taking place in NYC, they neglect to let the reader know they're in NYC even when that would be useful information.
Get out more, New Yorkers!
#WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
So in stories they write taking place in NYC, they neglect to let the reader know they're in NYC even when that would be useful information.
Get out more, New Yorkers!
#WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
Time away from a piece can be as crucial as the time you've spent writing it.
Largely because "darlings" you couldn't kill a year ago can age so poorly that it's easier to put them out of your misery.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
Largely because "darlings" you couldn't kill a year ago can age so poorly that it's easier to put them out of your misery.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
August 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Time away from a piece can be as crucial as the time you've spent writing it.
Largely because "darlings" you couldn't kill a year ago can age so poorly that it's easier to put them out of your misery.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
Largely because "darlings" you couldn't kill a year ago can age so poorly that it's easier to put them out of your misery.
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
What are the two greatest compliments a reader can give your work?
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
August 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What are the two greatest compliments a reader can give your work?
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
#writing
#amwriting
Because #writers are supposed to be good with words & use them well,
One of the biggest challenges is making characters not sound more articulate & educated than they're supposed to be. Even if a character's "educated," there's often tension between speech & motivation.
#WritingCommunity #writing
One of the biggest challenges is making characters not sound more articulate & educated than they're supposed to be. Even if a character's "educated," there's often tension between speech & motivation.
#WritingCommunity #writing
August 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Because #writers are supposed to be good with words & use them well,
One of the biggest challenges is making characters not sound more articulate & educated than they're supposed to be. Even if a character's "educated," there's often tension between speech & motivation.
#WritingCommunity #writing
One of the biggest challenges is making characters not sound more articulate & educated than they're supposed to be. Even if a character's "educated," there's often tension between speech & motivation.
#WritingCommunity #writing
I laugh when young'uns think saying someone was "born in the 1900s" is a diss.
I'm like, "Baby, that's a privilege. May you live to see two centuries. Because I'm on my second millennium."
#Aging #WritingCommunity #writing #inspiration
I'm like, "Baby, that's a privilege. May you live to see two centuries. Because I'm on my second millennium."
#Aging #WritingCommunity #writing #inspiration
July 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I laugh when young'uns think saying someone was "born in the 1900s" is a diss.
I'm like, "Baby, that's a privilege. May you live to see two centuries. Because I'm on my second millennium."
#Aging #WritingCommunity #writing #inspiration
I'm like, "Baby, that's a privilege. May you live to see two centuries. Because I'm on my second millennium."
#Aging #WritingCommunity #writing #inspiration
So many of my fellow #writers are obsessed with their #legacy and their name living on beyond their death.
So I pose the question: would you rather your name die out...or live on with AI remixing your work and style so that future generations keep reading "your" work?
#WritingCommunity #writing
So I pose the question: would you rather your name die out...or live on with AI remixing your work and style so that future generations keep reading "your" work?
#WritingCommunity #writing
July 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So many of my fellow #writers are obsessed with their #legacy and their name living on beyond their death.
So I pose the question: would you rather your name die out...or live on with AI remixing your work and style so that future generations keep reading "your" work?
#WritingCommunity #writing
So I pose the question: would you rather your name die out...or live on with AI remixing your work and style so that future generations keep reading "your" work?
#WritingCommunity #writing
2nd rejection received today to my memoir #query.
Barbara Walters once said all the successful people she'd interviewed had 2 things in common: their steadfastness in the face of rejection and belief they'd ultimately succeed.
So I sent out another 3 queries.
#WritingCommunity #writing #agents
Barbara Walters once said all the successful people she'd interviewed had 2 things in common: their steadfastness in the face of rejection and belief they'd ultimately succeed.
So I sent out another 3 queries.
#WritingCommunity #writing #agents
July 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
2nd rejection received today to my memoir #query.
Barbara Walters once said all the successful people she'd interviewed had 2 things in common: their steadfastness in the face of rejection and belief they'd ultimately succeed.
So I sent out another 3 queries.
#WritingCommunity #writing #agents
Barbara Walters once said all the successful people she'd interviewed had 2 things in common: their steadfastness in the face of rejection and belief they'd ultimately succeed.
So I sent out another 3 queries.
#WritingCommunity #writing #agents
First thing I'd do if I got a million-dollar book deal: before telling any of my loved ones, I’d ask each to lend me $200.
Those who do would get a cut of my fortune. Those who don't? They get a postcard from my mansion in the south of Spain.
#WritingCommunity #money #BookAdvance
Those who do would get a cut of my fortune. Those who don't? They get a postcard from my mansion in the south of Spain.
#WritingCommunity #money #BookAdvance
July 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
First thing I'd do if I got a million-dollar book deal: before telling any of my loved ones, I’d ask each to lend me $200.
Those who do would get a cut of my fortune. Those who don't? They get a postcard from my mansion in the south of Spain.
#WritingCommunity #money #BookAdvance
Those who do would get a cut of my fortune. Those who don't? They get a postcard from my mansion in the south of Spain.
#WritingCommunity #money #BookAdvance
I've just received the best compliment from a member of my writing group. I was called "direct but kind" in my critiques.
Like a choir director cringing when someone sings off-key, I hurt at bad writing. So it's nice to know that I'm not a jerk in delivering comments.
#WritingCommunity #writing
Like a choir director cringing when someone sings off-key, I hurt at bad writing. So it's nice to know that I'm not a jerk in delivering comments.
#WritingCommunity #writing
July 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've just received the best compliment from a member of my writing group. I was called "direct but kind" in my critiques.
Like a choir director cringing when someone sings off-key, I hurt at bad writing. So it's nice to know that I'm not a jerk in delivering comments.
#WritingCommunity #writing
Like a choir director cringing when someone sings off-key, I hurt at bad writing. So it's nice to know that I'm not a jerk in delivering comments.
#WritingCommunity #writing
As "that guy" at parties who raises a finger during conversations and says, "But actually...", I witnessed two other "But actually..." dudes goin' at each other with facts during last writing group.
Pure Comedy Gold.
#WritingCommunity
#writers
#writing
Pure Comedy Gold.
#WritingCommunity
#writers
#writing
July 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As "that guy" at parties who raises a finger during conversations and says, "But actually...", I witnessed two other "But actually..." dudes goin' at each other with facts during last writing group.
Pure Comedy Gold.
#WritingCommunity
#writers
#writing
Pure Comedy Gold.
#WritingCommunity
#writers
#writing