Sharing your skills and talents can be both exciting and terrifying. Everyone is a creator. But what that means is wildly variable. What most create is simple, but important. It might work with a necessity in your life, cover a basic need, or otherwise serve you. Thus, you’re a creator, but not necessarily an artist….
Finishing your book, painting, or whatever is better than not finishing – but you won’t always finish. This weekend, before going out of town, I took a moment to back up current active files to my flash drive. Specifically, my writing. The books I have underway and the ones I’m currently plotting. I also grabbed…
In the business of writing, writing – in many respects – is surprisingly the easiest part. As a child, I discovered that writing fiction – sci-fi and fantasy – brought me joy. I’ve always had an active (overactive, maybe) imagination. Channeling my imagination from playing pretend – imagining my swing set as a starfighter, creating…
Author, painter, sculptor, or any other form of artist – do you get paid what you’re worth? This question is not just for artists. Frankly, it applies to more or less everyone. In America in particular, businesses are more likely to pay as little as necessary for workers. With a few exceptions, of course, many…
After numerous false starts, I found and made more time to read – and that’s been amazing. As a child, I loved to read. I think it was all the reading that I did as a kid that led me to become a writer. Ideas like – hey, I can do that, too – made…
Doesn’t matter who’s reading so much as the need to keep writing must be satisfied. Why do I write? The short answer is that I’m compelled to write. For me, it’s like breathing – it’s something I do. Maneuvering words into sentences, paragraphs, and pages – whether fiction, nonfiction, or business – is my skill….
Maybe I do write are, and maybe not. Why that matters is personal. The arts are highly subjective. Whatever the medium, the arts will awaken and excite some, frighten and disgust others, while simultaneously having zero impact on still others. It really does depend on you, your tastes, your environment, and more. I recently read…
If others have created sustainable income via writing, I can, too. There are three utterly different styles of writing I employ regularly. This is the first because it’s the most frequent. Blogging. I write and post a minimum of 4 blogs a week. Each of these are topical – positivity and related on Mondays; writing,…
Reading and learning are synonymous with one another. I developed my love for reading and learning as a child. Unlike many other kids, I loved school. Right from the start, school was something I looked forward to and enjoyed. I learned to read well when I was very young. How young? I have no idea….
Did you succeed with the creative endeavors you worked on? Since I started to write full-time to live as a professional author, I’ve been producing a lot more finished work in my creative endeavors. Let’s stick to my fiction work, here. Before shifting my focus to my creative endeavors, I self-published 3 novels before 2020….
