I can see what I want on the other side – but still haven’t figured out how to get through the invisible door. When I was asked if I wanted to contribute a short story about pirates and magic back in 2010, I was ecstatic. Finally, I was going to have a work of fiction…
Coping with a topsy-turvy, uncertain world, it’s all too easy to have word fail you. Are you at a loss for how to approach the world right now? Oftentimes, I am. To say that we are living in “interesting” times is an understatement. What we are living in is perhaps one of the most bizarre,…
Do you write from your head, your heart, your soul – or a combination of the three? I know that for some, writing is a chore and a challenge. Finding and/or creating words is not something the comes easily for everybody. But if you are a writer, do you know where the words you write…
And that is okay. Welcome to the post-pandemic world. There are numerous reasons why you may be unable to art. There are a lot of people, writers, painters, cooks, and other artists, who have been wildly productive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some people have been capable of getting tons of work done, and really making…
You have the choice of whether your words inspire and build or dishearten and destroy. Words are powerful. Your words matter. The words you choose can be creative and help inspire and build great things – or they can be unproductive and dishearten and destroy. People have changed the world with words. However, even with…
The best way to get started with writing is to write. A lot of the things I write are crap. Garbage. Lousy, silly, barely literate words and phrases. Half-baked ideas, notions, thoughts, and so on. I have, in my collection, about a dozen stories I started – and never finished. Some got a good way…
How is this even a question? Art is life. Art is an expression of the self that tends to get shared with others. Whatever medium it’s done in, whatever form it takes – art is life. A great deal of our history is found in art. Statuary, paintings, tapestries, plays, poems, books, scrolls, architecture, and…
Artists are frequently working on more than one project at a time. I currently have multiple writing projects underway. Every weekday I create a blog. Mondays are specifically about Positivity, Wednesdays are Pathwalking, and Fridays (or Saturdays) are about the craft itself. I also am posting other articles for the rest of the week, usually…
Everyone has their own approach to the artistic process. But more than that, everyone is unique and so, too, is the way they do things. My way is not the same as your way. That’s probably one of the most simple and true facts of life in general. How I do things is not at…
Remember that it is important not to take them personally. With the publication of my new sci-fi book, I did something I have never done before. I hired someone to help me promote my work to a large number of reviewers. Reviews help to raise your visibility on Amazon – so more reviews are more…
