Hi. I’m Tim Treanor. I like to write.

Writing makes things concrete. You can think nonsense, you can talk nonsense, but when you write things down they have to make sense. Otherwise, your foolishness will be there for all to see.

I started writing in the second grade. While I was in high school, I completed my first novel. It was dreadful, but at least it was long.

While I was in college I rewrote it. Then it was both dreadful and pretentious.

I was forty before I realized that I should write in simple, declarative sentences. Later, I came to realize that I had to give the reader a reason to turn the page — every page. I had to write characters who were good and bad and complicated, which is to say human. I had to create a fictive dream which the reader would be glad to enter.

I’m seventy-three as I write this. I will be even older when you read this, I hope.

I think I finally got it.

On this page I invite you to have a look at the things I’ve written — some with  Lee Hurwitz, and some by myself. If an item is on the market, I provide a link.

You can read my short stories for free.

And, like six billion other people, I have a blog in which I express the gospel according to Treanor.

Bon appetit!