The Year In Review What did I do with my art in 2025? Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Here we are at the end of 2025. For most, to one degree or another, this has been a crazy year. The world is getting wilder, between the Russia/Ukraine thing, China/Taiwan tensions, and Israel/Palestine madness. Here in the United States, there’s been all the madness and chaos of the Trump administration. Personally, my family has been
The Writer I am Now Isn’t the Writer I Was Then Similarities exist, but change is necessary for growth and improvement. The color photocopy of the cover of the book I wrote at age 9. Sitting on my bookshelf is a bound, color-photo-copied version of the first book I ever wrote. It is 50 pages of illustrated sci-fi called Wildfire. The premise is that the adults build robots that do everything, and they let them
I Know My Creations Are Not For Everyone That doesn’t mean my creations aren’t worthwhile. Photo by Sable Flow on Unsplash Some people don’t read sci-fi and fantasy. I’ve loved sci-fi and fantasy most of my life. Some of my best memories from my childhood (although they’re rather vague) involve creating adventures with my Star Wars action figures, imagining myself a galactic space commander, and running around my yard with sticks that were laser guns
Improvement is Ongoing This is a choice you get to make. Photo by Guilherme Cunha on Unsplash As a very small child, my parents took me to see Star Wars. I fell in love, and soon all sci-fi piqued my interest. Over time, fantasy got added to that. Then I started to create my own. At age 9, I wrote and illustrated my first 50-page sci-fi book. When I was 13, I typed out my
What Does Marketing Your Art Look Like? This is an ongoing challenge for me, too. Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash As an author, turning an idea into words, paragraphs, pages, and books is relatively easy. My art is storytelling, my primary medium in novel form. As an authorpreneur, self-publishing the book is also relatively easy. I’ve created and produced sufficient books that I thoroughly get this part. Sending the book out for editing, going
Working Words From Different Angles My main focus might be fiction, but it’s not my only focus. Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash At the end of 2011, following a desire to get back to writing on a more regular basis, I made my first-ever New Year’s Action. I set a day that I would write a blog post every week. I’d been a writer on and off for most of my life. I had
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Wednesdays – Pathwalking (my philosophy for consciously choosing how to live your life mindfully, on your terms).