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You Grow and Change or Shrink and Stagnate

February 4, 2025

This applies to your art, too. Change is the one and only constant in the Universe. It cannot be denied, avoided, ignored, or stopped. It can, will, and does happen. Whether glacially slow or lightning fast, change is inevitable. People fear change. This is what causes ideas and practices of fundamentalism and reactionaryism to grow and thrive. Fear of change and nostalgia for what was – often with a lot of bias and attached Pollyanaism

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A dart in the bullseye. Success is how YOU define it.

Success is How YOU Define It

January 28, 2025

Success – like beauty and perfection – is in the eye of the beholder. As an authorpreneur, I am not just a writer and publisher of books. Like it or not, I’m a business. One of the things I’m putting renewed focus on this year is how I define success. Over the years, that definition has changed. As a kid, desiring to get traditionally published, success was seeing my books in the bookstore. As I

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Photographer checking his camera. You are and are not your vocation.

You Are and Are Not Your Vocation

January 21, 2025

Even writers, artists, and the like are not their jobs. When your primary vocation in life is one of the arts, it feels like that’s the centerpiece of your identity. Even when you work to keep a separation between your personal and professional selves, your art is a defining quality of who you are. In my experience this is true for every writer, speaker, sculptor, and painter, just to name a few examples. Beneath the

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Planner vs pantser

It Is (But Isn’t) Easier to Write as a Pantser

January 14, 2025

Reconciling being a planner vs a pantser 5 years on. It’s been a while since I’ve written about this topic, and I felt this was a good time to address it again. There are 2 primary types of novel writers out there (note – primary. There are always outliers and the like). These are planners and pantsers. Planners plan and plot. They create outlines, do worldbuilding, dig deep into characters, and do other planning before

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A woman looking at art in a museum. That might not mean what you think it means.

That Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

January 7, 2025

Symbolism and meaning in art aren’t always there I had a college professor who was very, very sure of himself. He was so incredibly sure of himself – and convinced he was absolutely correct – that he took a play by a well-known playwright and made cuts to it to fit HIS narrative about the focal character. Seriously, he took the best character in the play and cut 80% of the part because it didn’t

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Fireworks. Personal and creative plans for the new year

My Personal and Creative Plans for The New Year

December 31, 2024

Thoughts for 2025 on the last day of 2024 (with bonus accountability!) I don’t know about you, but 2024 has been a weird, crazy year for me on a lot of levels. Specifically, abstractly, professionally, and personally. Today I’m going to reflect on this with an eye towards tomorrow. If you’ll indulge me for a moment, allow me to share: Abstractly: The US election has colored the world in some really freaky ways. A lot

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The Philosophy of the Titanium Don

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).

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