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….
Pantser or planner – your writing practice is yours and yours alone. For most of my writing career, I’ve been a pantser. Pantser = one who writes by the seat of their pants. An idea popped into my head – and I sat down with my notebook or at the keyboard and started on it….
Can you have too many stories in the queue? I don’t believe so – but your mileage may vary. In September 2015, I began a sci-fi story idea that would evolve into my Void Incursion series. I published the first two books of the series in 2020, then the next 2 in 2021. The fifth…
Do you go with traditional, non-traditional, or REALLY non-traditional publishing? For a long, long time, the only way to make any money as a fiction writer was to go the traditional publishing route. Along the way, you could submit short stories to magazines, lifestyle sections of newspapers, and anything else that might help you land…
Yes, but you must do the work to make that fleeting idea into something more. Have you ever had an idea that came and went almost instantly? Or have you had an idea that nagged at you until you addressed it and did something with it? Sometimes, all you get is a fleeting vision, an…
While it may have helped me as an author, I’m done with Twitter. Like you, I’ve been watching Twitter come apart at the seams. What Mr. Musk had planned as his end game for his actions is anyone’s guess. While I expected it to be gone soon – with or without Musk at its helm…
There’s always a line – and you choose if it intimidates you or not. There are many lines in life for us to find, straddle, and cross. Most are utterly intangible. They’re lines that represent crossing from one idea to another. Some are deeply negative – like making polarizing statements, disenfranchising people, and otherwise causing…
