This is an evolving labor of love and ongoing work. Once upon a time (see what I did there?) I was a kid with a dream. Star Wars had awakened something in me, and I wanted to make more stories in that crazy universe! But more than that, my imagination turned to creating my own stories. This would lead to my first full book, 50 pages of handwritten and illustrated sci-fi. I wrote Wildfire when
There are multiple ways to write your book. When it comes to the art of writing a book, there is no One True Way™ to do it. There are nearly as many ways to write as there are genres to write in and topics to write about. You, as the artist, get to choose your own adventure. What do you like to read? What do you desire to write? Do you have the mental, emotional,
This applies to your art, too. Change is the one and only constant in the Universe. It cannot be denied, avoided, ignored, or stopped. It can, will, and does happen. Whether glacially slow or lightning fast, change is inevitable. People fear change. This is what causes ideas and practices of fundamentalism and reactionaryism to grow and thrive. Fear of change and nostalgia for what was – often with a lot of bias and attached Pollyanaism
Success – like beauty and perfection – is in the eye of the beholder. As an authorpreneur, I am not just a writer and publisher of books. Like it or not, I’m a business. One of the things I’m putting renewed focus on this year is how I define success. Over the years, that definition has changed. As a kid, desiring to get traditionally published, success was seeing my books in the bookstore. As I
Even writers, artists, and the like are not their jobs. When your primary vocation in life is one of the arts, it feels like that’s the centerpiece of your identity. Even when you work to keep a separation between your personal and professional selves, your art is a defining quality of who you are. In my experience this is true for every writer, speaker, sculptor, and painter, just to name a few examples. Beneath the
Reconciling being a planner vs a pantser 5 years on. It’s been a while since I’ve written about this topic, and I felt this was a good time to address it again. There are 2 primary types of novel writers out there (note – primary. There are always outliers and the like). These are planners and pantsers. Planners plan and plot. They create outlines, do worldbuilding, dig deep into characters, and do other planning before
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Mondays – Positivity (and related ideas for making choices and decisions in life).
Wednesdays – Pathwalking (my philosophy for consciously choosing how to live your life mindfully, on your terms).