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get my writing back into the flow, yo

How Do I Get Myself Back Writing into the Flow, Yo?

April 16, 2022

Some days you flow better than others with your work. Now that I’ve completed my Void Incursion sci-fi series – apart from editing and then having the book professionally edited – I’m done with the writing I’ve been doing. I am not, of course, done. As I’ve written before, I have planned out 10 more books. There are 4 more books for my Forgotten Fodder series.  This will follow another investigation with Onima, Jace, and

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connect fiction and nonfiction works

How Do Nonfiction Works Directly Connect to Works of Fiction?

April 12, 2022

How my nonfiction and fiction connect define my overall brand. I began writing fiction some forty years ago. I was 9. That first work of sci-if – called Wildfire – was imaginative and literally colorful (hand-written and illustrated by me). But it might also have caused some psychologists to question my mindset (spoiler alert: The kids – who are the protagonists of the story – end up killing not just all the robots created to

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target audience

What Does the Ideal Member of my Target Audience Look Like?

April 9, 2022

Exploring the process of homing in on my target audience. Realizing some of my limitations regarding marketing my brand – and taking a direction I’ve deeply desired to go for a while – I have a new coach. As we work on building some new tools to help me expand my brand and drive this new direction, I get homework from her after each session. This week’s homework asks a question I’ve only vaguely given

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familiar and unfamiliar

Do I Continue Working with the Familiar or Start the Unfamiliar?

April 5, 2022

I get to choose if I should work in a familiar or unfamiliar setting. For a long time, I really, really wanted to write a sci-fi epic. Nothing stuck in my mind to drive it. As a pantser (one who writes by the seat of their pants), I never had that flash of, “yes, this!” hit me. Until it did. One throw-away theory I read about the work of another creator sparked an idea for

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fall or fly

Am I Teetering on the Brink and About to Fall or Fly?

April 2, 2022

That’s the question – fall or fly? One of my favorite sayings, usually attributed to Zen but said by John Burroughs, is, “Leap and the net will appear.” If you are unfamiliar with this phrase – it basically means that sometimes you need to just leap into the project, the idea, or what-have-you – and know that any freefall will be arrested. There is, however, another option. Don’t just leap and await the net. Leap

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Step One: Write; Step Two: Edit; Step Three: Profit?

Step One: Write. Step Two: Edit. Step Three: Profit?

March 29, 2022

Sadly, step three (Profit) requires more steps – and some other intangibles. Since 2013, I have self-published 17 books in total on Amazon. Five of them are nonfiction and published under Murray “MJ” Blehart, while the other 12 are fiction under MJ Blehart. From the outside, it looks like there are 3 steps to the writing process. Write. Edit. Profit! Except that’s just not the case. There are way more than 3 steps. What’s more

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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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