This is always an interesting position to be in. Writing is, on the one hand, simple. Sit at the keyboard, let the ideas flow, and get the words on the screen. On the other hand, there’s often quite the process involved. This essay, for example, is being written by the seat of my pants. This means I’m writing as a pantser. If you’re not familiar with the term “pantser”, it means you write in flow
Do your writing, do your art, and be a creative force in a mad mad mad world. Whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, the best thing that you can do for yourself, and for the world, is your art. Artistic expression is a powerful tool that can inspire and empower like nothing else in the world. Creativity expresses itself in art. Spend any amount of time watching the news or perusing social media, and
Does anyone truly understand anyone else? Everyone is creative in their own way. Creativity is tied to curiosity, and while it’s not always artistic, per se, it’s there. Everyone everywhere has creative abilities within them. This takes all sorts of forms. Some involve creating order, and those people are analysts, scientists, project managers, and the like. Their creativity involves making sense of things, ordering chaos, and other seemingly mundane things that not everyone has the
Exploring what I need to complete the next book for publishing. Following suggestions from my beta readers, I’ve been working on doing another edit to Savagespace I – Alliances and Consequences. I added some color and details that were lacking, as well as removed some repetition. Further, I cleaned up a few other errors, tightened some dialogue, and reassembled certain paragraphs. The time has come to send the book to an editor. Once again, the
I’ve done a lot of marketing, but marketing myself is difficult. In case this hasn’t been made abundantly clear over the last few years, I’m an artist—specifically, an author. My main joy in creating art comes from creating sci-fi and fantasy worlds, books, and series. Since 2020 I’ve published 10 novels. Two complete sci-fi series (Void Incursion and Forgotten Fodder), and my standalone fantasy/Steampunk novel Infamy Ascending. Currently, I’m planning my next sci-fi series, Savagespace,
Another year, another con complete. As I wrote last week, I attended my third Farpoint con. Once again, I got to hang out for a weekend with like-minded geeks, sit on a couple of very interesting panels, and even signed and sold a couple of books. My favorite part of attending the con as an author guest is the panels. Three of the four were amazing. It began with a Doctor Who Panel, where I
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