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Are the Arts and Artists Ready for Web 3.0 and Beyond?

January 25, 2022

Yes and no, of course. Web 3.0 and beyond is both fascinating and terrifying. Did you read Ready Player One or see the movie? If not, let me sum up one major aspect of the story. There is a virtual world called The Oasis where people immerse themselves via VR glasses, as well as partial and full-body suits. They have digital avatars of themselves and collect coins and pop-culture toys as they explore the metaverse

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competition

Am I In Competition with Better-Known, More Successful Sci-Fi Authors?

January 22, 2022

Not really. But I feel a bit jealous of their success and see them as competition as such. I just finished reading the first novel of Tim Pratt’s sci-fi series The Axiom. I found The Wrong Stars really hard to put down. The story was engaging, the characters compelling, and it was an excellent read. Who is Tim Pratt? A Hugo Award winning author with more than 20 novels under his belt in both sci-fi

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shame

Do I Feel Some Not-So-Secret Shame for Pursuing My Art?

January 18, 2022

Short answer – Yes, I feel a sense of shame about it. But I’m not ashamed at all. Not everyone is built to work 9-5 in an office, plying a trade like being a plumber or carpenter, and other “normal” jobs. Along the same line – not everyone has the desire to be a teacher, stay-at-home parent, doctor, lawyer, or business mogul. Sure, some people have ZERO desire to work. They would much rather sit

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learning from fiction

Am I Learning as Much from Reading Fiction as from Reading Nonfiction?

January 15, 2022

Yes. I’m learning things that make me rethink my approach to my own work. More than a year ago, I began a new habit. My morning routine changed from spending an hour or two online playing games on Facebook to reading. I get out of bed, feed the cats, start the coffee – then sit down on the couch with a book or my Kindle and proceed to read. Generally, I read at least one

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experts

The World Needs Experts, Merit, and the Related Inequality from Them

January 11, 2022

Experts should not be disregarded because of the work they put in – quite the opposite, in fact. I do not consider myself an expert at anything. Nope, I am not an expert. Experienced? To be sure. Knowledgeable? Absolutely. A master? Maybe, but only because what mastery I have isn’t the end-all-be-all, and I am still learning/developing/growing/evolving. The number of things any of us can know and learn are uncountable. Even with everything you might

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more than one writer

There Are Challenges to Being More Than One Writer at a Time

January 8, 2022

I am not one writer – I’m two or three writers in one. Did you know that I have two completely separate Amazon author pages? Working with my marketing professional last year, we decided that – to alleviate potential brand confusion – I needed to separate my fiction and my nonfiction. To do that – I created two separate identities. I am MJ Blehart – author of sci-fi, fantasy, and other fiction. But I am

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I post here twice weekly about my work with Positivity, Mindfulness, and Conscious Reality Creation. I’ve been blogging every week, without fail, since the beginning of 2012.

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