Did you succeed with the creative endeavors you worked on? Since I started to write full-time to live as a professional author, I’ve been producing a lot more finished work in my creative endeavors. Let’s stick to my fiction work, here. Before shifting my focus to my creative endeavors, I self-published 3 novels before 2020….
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How Do Finding, Straddling, and Crossing the Line Compare to One Another?
There’s always a line – and you choose if it intimidates you or not. There are many lines in life for us to find, straddle, and cross. Most are utterly intangible. They’re lines that represent crossing from one idea to another. Some are deeply negative – like making polarizing statements, disenfranchising people, and otherwise causing…
Does it Sometimes Feel Like Your Identity as a Creator is a Struggle?
Struggling with identity tends to be a matter of active mindfulness. I wrote my first 50-page, hand-illustrated sci-fi novel when I was 9. The next was 36-pages, typed single-spaced, when I was 13 or so. After that, I wrote on and off, in fits and spurts. But writing was always the focal point of my…
Are You Ready for November and The Start of Another NaNoWriMo?
Are You Ready for November and The Start of Another NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writer’s Month – has begun again. In 2004 or 2005, I was introduced to National Novel Writer’s Month – NaNoWriMo. Every November, NaNoWriMo is a challenge to reach 50,000 words of writing in 30 days. While that’s a lot of…
If You Don’t Do It, You Won’t Fail – But Neither Will You Succeed
You won’t fail if you don’t share what you create – but you won’t succeed, either. Sharing your work can be terrifying. It can feel like you’re putting yourself out there to be judged. I write and post blogs 4 days a week. In addition, I do a podcast once a week. Then, because that’s…
When All Is Said and Done Am I Asking the Right Questions?
That depends on the situation and the questions asked. Storytelling has been my passion pretty much all my life. Informally, I started telling stories when I was very, very small. I still remember – when I was probably 4 years old – sitting at the windowsill in our living room. But in my imagination –…
How Many Ways Can the Line Between Fact and Fiction Be Blurred?
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…
Can Today Be the First Day of the Rest of Your Writing Career?
Keep this in mind when you debate if you should start a writing career and creating – or not. I’ve met a lot of would-be writers over the years. Numerous people who have said in one form or another, wow, I really want to write – or – I have this great idea for a…
Why Should You Pay for My Writing – Or Any Other Art?
Because we should always pay for literal things of value. Shameless self-promotion skirts a fine line between sharing, oversharing, bragging, informing, and annoying people. That one line covers a lot of space and detail. It’s important that we recognize and accept this truth: things of value are things that we pay for. Let me be…
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…