If you desire to create, please find a way to create. The world needs more creatives in it. The world progresses via creativity. Whether it’s the arts or sciences – creativity and all that it might produce expands human knowledge, grows our understanding within and without, and changes the world for the better. Sadly, there…
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Why Won’t the Annoying Brain Weasels in My Head Shut Up?
Do you have chittering brain weasels messing with you? Confession time. While I can put on an excellent façade of confidence and self-assurance – I am in an ongoing war with self-doubt, my self-worth, and the like. This is a war I’ve been fighting all my life. Though I win many of the battles of…
What Does the Ideal Member of my Target Audience Look Like?
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…
Do I Continue Working with the Familiar or Start the Unfamiliar?
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!”…
Do You Like to Reread Books You’ve Already Read Before?
I only reread a very small selection of books. I own a lot of books. Most, if not all of them, I’ve read at some time or other. And most of them I will never read again. This is why, a few years ago, I donated several large boxes of books to my local library….
The Takeaway – What Useful Things Did I Learn from My Con Experience?
After attending Farpoint Con 2022 – what did I learn? For the first time since 2016, I attended a con. Farpoint in Hunt Valley, Maryland, is a sci-fi con that’s got a rich history and has been ongoing for years. I attended as a guest. Thus, I sat on several panels, did a reading from…
What Tired but True Marketing Tool Am I Making Poor Use of?
There is one marketing tool I am not using at all like I could/should be. Most digital marketing focus is on social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the like have the potential to reach ginormous audiences to spread your message, promote your work, and get you seen. They can be tremendously helpful…
How Has my Winning 2022 Writing Plan Been Changed?
My writing plan for 2022 is shifting. And I am still working out how. In 2020, I’d determined it was time to start writing and publishing more. Thus, I published 3 books that year. For 2021, I got super ambitious. I was going to publish 6 novels total. All four that made up the first…
I am Doing the Thing and Going to a Con as an Author
Been many years, for many reasons, since I could say I am going to a con. Several years back, now, there was the annual Steampunk World’s Fair in New Jersey. It was a fun local convention (con) – especially since I was getting into Steampunk at that time. In fact, I was so enamored of…
Am I Learning as Much from Reading Fiction as from Reading Nonfiction?
Yes. I’m learning things that make me rethink my approach to my own work. More than a year ago, I began a new habit. My morning routine changed from spending an hour or two online playing games on Facebook to reading. I get out of bed, feed the cats, start the coffee – then sit…