I can see what I want on the other side – but still haven’t figured out how to get through the invisible door. When I was asked if I wanted to contribute a short story about pirates and magic back in 2010, I was ecstatic. Finally, I was going to have a work of fiction published! Two years later, I got another short story published in the follow-up anthology. There it was, my name included
Coping with a topsy-turvy, uncertain world, it’s all too easy to have word fail you. Are you at a loss for how to approach the world right now? Oftentimes, I am. To say that we are living in “interesting” times is an understatement. What we are living in is perhaps one of the most bizarre, head-scratching, uncertain times in all modern history (post-industrial revolution-era, at least.) As any sort of artist, it’s usually easy to
Do you write from your head, your heart, your soul – or a combination of the three? I know that for some, writing is a chore and a challenge. Finding and/or creating words is not something the comes easily for everybody. But if you are a writer, do you know where the words you write come from? What’s the difference? I have some thoughts on this notion. This is not, by any stretch of the
And that is okay. Welcome to the post-pandemic world. There are numerous reasons why you may be unable to art. There are a lot of people, writers, painters, cooks, and other artists, who have been wildly productive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some people have been capable of getting tons of work done, and really making use of the time they have had that they might not have, sans lockdown and self-quarantine. I know many hobby-art
You have the choice of whether your words inspire and build or dishearten and destroy. Words are powerful. Your words matter. The words you choose can be creative and help inspire and build great things – or they can be unproductive and dishearten and destroy. People have changed the world with words. However, even with the best of intentions, words can have the opposite of their intended effect. As far as I can tell, Jesus
The best way to get started with writing is to write. A lot of the things I write are crap. Garbage. Lousy, silly, barely literate words and phrases. Half-baked ideas, notions, thoughts, and so on. I have, in my collection, about a dozen stories I started – and never finished. Some got a good way in. Others are a couple of paragraphs and maybe a basic layout for where I had thought to go. In
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