What needs to be done to take this to the Next Level? This is a question that I have been struggling to answer for some time now, so I am breaking it down here. It has been less than 6 months since I began this journey, and started writing full-time. While I have been writing for most of life, writing full-time as my job is relatively new to me. Deciding to do this is a
Am I Writing for You or Am I Writing for Me? The short answer is YES Writing is as essential to me as breathing. Once I begin to put my thoughts down, my attention tends to hold to this one place, and the rest of the world fades away. It doesn’t matter if I am working on fiction or nonfiction, writing is my heart and soul. When I finally sat down and looked to discover
Wrestling words into submission can be interesting. Sometimes the words come easily, and sometimes they require a nearly physical effort. As a writer, words are my stock in trade. I sit at my keyboard and type away, and put into the world a new fictional story, self-help and personal development ideas, inspiration, motivation, philosophy, or whatever else comes to mind. While I know some people find writing to be super-challenging, for the most part I
Your writing process is probably different from mine, and both are valid. There is any number of books out that all about the writing process. Different well-respected and well-known authors have shared their process. This can be extremely useful to any writer or aspiring writer, in especial if you are still working on establishing your way. What is important to remember is that there is no One True Way™ to write. Frankly, when it comes
Finding the balance between two very different worlds. Several years back I began to question whether or not to create an alternate nom de plume. Why? Because I was writing from two very different places. Setting aside professional, business work: Fiction When I was nine years old I wrote Wildfire, a 50 page illustrated sci-fi novel. This was where I began my lifelong love of writing, and from there I started to create more stories,
You are the creator of your worlds, whether real or imagined. While this totally applies to fiction, it also applies to real life. But it seldom feels that way. I have been working on an epic sci-fi story for almost 4 years. Up until a few months ago, I didn’t have a title for it. But wow is it fun to write. I’ve taken a few classic sci-fi tropes and stood them on their head.
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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.
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).