The line between fact and fiction can be amazingly fluid. Have you ever had an experience so bizarre, that you found yourself looking around for a camera and a crew? Like, for reals, someone is filming this shit, right? Sometimes, as a storyteller, it feels like the line between fact and fiction can get super…
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Self-Promotion Saturday – Opening Gambit
Welcome to Self-Promotion Saturday! This week, I am offering my first sci-fi novel. In another galaxy, a multitude of races live. Numerous worlds have been colonized, various societies and nations created – and for the most part, despite their many differences, there is peace. But then, a new threat emerges. Extragalactic attackers begin surgical strikes…
How Do Authors Make Their Stories Come Alive?
Let’s explore three primary ways to make fiction come alive and feel real. I have done a lot of reading over the years. Books are one of my greatest loves. It doesn’t matter what form they take. Paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook, or other – I love books and stories about fantastic worlds and unique characters….
When You’re Living in A Dystopia Why is Writing Fiction Challenging?
I am not a fan of the growing dystopia that is our world today. As a reader of sci-fi, I’ve enjoyed many dystopian stories, including Snow Crash, The Hunger Games series, Ready Player One, and others. As an author of sci-fi, the nature of the second-class status of the military clones in my Forgotten Fodder…
How Do I Develop More Trust and Faith in Myself and my Arts?
I think more trust and faith in myself would open more doors. Cheesy as this might read – I know my purpose in life. What is it? I’m a storyteller. Some of the stories that I tell are pure fiction. Or, more specifically, sci-fi and fantasy. Other stories are life lessons via mindfulness, conscious reality…
How is Success as an Author or Artist Truly Measured?
Where is the line that determines your success? The idea of success is complicated, to say the least. There are almost as many ways to measure success as there are people on this planet. Thus, defining and measuring it is massively variable. One person’s success is another person’s failure. Good enough is success for some,…
Have You Purchased One of my Books?
Hi everybody! This is the link to my published books. I appreciate all the support I have received thus far.I’d like to request, whether you have purchased a Kindle book, paperback, or audiobook of mine previously – please purchase another. (If you have not purchased one of my works – please consider doing so!) Also…
How Many Worlds Do You Think That You Have in Your Head?
I can’t tell you just how many worlds are in mine. And this includes the “real” world, too. I’ve been in love with sci-fi and fantasy since I was a child. Star Wars, Star Trek, the original and reimagined Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, The Belgariad series, the Dragonriders of…
How Are Kindness, Compassion, and Creativity all Interlinked?
Creatives have used kindness and compassion across all of history to tell their stories. Why do creatives create? I believe it’s because we have vision, passion, and energy inside of us that we need to share. It’s a compulsion not unlike breathing. You put the words on the page or screen, ink or paint on…
Do You Wing it, Or Do You Create a Plan to Do It?
There is something to be said for both choosing to wing it and planning. For most of my writing career, I have been a pantser. If you are unfamiliar with this term, what it means is that I mostly write by the seat of my pants. I sit down at the keyboard, take an idea…