Lucretia Tye Jasmine Interview
Lucretia Tye Jasmine is a freelance writer, artist, and interviewer. Her first book is '70s Teen Pop, which is part of the new 33 1/3 series "Genre."
How did you get to where you are today, professionally?
This is such a great question. “Professional” is such a difficult word for me. I’ve longed to find a meaningful way to earn money wherein I feel valued and respected for work that I love to do while being paid a sustainable living wage. That has yet to happen.
Writing is like breathing for me. It’s something I have to do but it’s something I want to do. Before I was first published I was writing without any intention to publish or earn money from it; my diaries and screenplays and short stories were for writing itself. I wrote my first short story when I was eleven, an erotic fantasy about musicians, and my first script when I was fourteen, a story about two teens running wild. I did write short stories as a teen for publication in Seventeen but that magazine turned them all down. But my high school paper accepted one of them (I was one of the editors and a co-founder but anyone who submitted work got published.)