Words matter. So does the intent, action, and implications when you choose them. I have something of a love affair with words. As a child, I was a voracious reader. I loved having books to read, and I always enjoyed picking up something new to expand my knowledge and imagination. I started to write my own words at age nine. Wildfire was the result – my first completed work, 50 pages of illustrated science fiction.
Editing your writing cannot be neglected. It’s important to make your work the best that it can be. I love writing. When I get to put words to the page or screen it makes me deliriously happy. This is my jam, whatever genre I am working in. Writing is joy. Editing, on the other hand, is less fun. At least for me, it is. I have no doubt that there are people out there who
Learning is a part of doing and continued education is not just for certain licenses and such. I wrote my first work of fiction, a sci-fi story when I was nine years old. Wildfire was 50 pages and illustrated by me. The characters’ side profiles, FYI, lacked noses. At the age of 13, I typed my next complete work. Once again it was sci-fi, clearly influenced by Tron, called The Secret Computer World. It was
When you are writing, sometimes you lose sight of the target There are many times when writing isn’t terribly dissimilar to flying down the trench of the Death Star in Star Wars, TIE Fighters in pursuit, your wingman getting scared. “It’s no good, I can’t maneuver!” “Stay on target.” “We’re too close!” “Stay on target.” “Loosen up!” **BOOM** When writing, the BOOM is not you getting blown up by Darth Vader, but it might be
Exploring how to brand myself and what I do. I have been reading an interesting book by Shayla Raquel called The 10 Commandments of Author Branding. While a lot of this is information I have uncovered elsewhere, other aspects of it have been eye-opening. What is my brand? MJ Blehart is my professional identity. But more than that, this is my business. It goes beyond just doing the work of writing. There is a whole
When all is said and done that’s what words are. The depth of this can be surreal. Thoughts are often abstract, complex, and mixed. They are unclear and tend to be varied in more ways than one. When thoughts get blended with feelings it adds a whole other layer of complexity. There are times when there is just no easy way to express them outside of your own head. Words are the end result of
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