Improvement is Ongoing This is a choice you get to make. Photo by Guilherme Cunha on Unsplash As a very small child, my parents took me to see Star Wars. I fell in love, and soon all sci-fi piqued my interest. Over time, fantasy got added to that. Then I started to create my own. At age 9, I wrote and illustrated my first 50-page sci-fi book. When I was 13, I typed out my
What Does Marketing Your Art Look Like? This is an ongoing challenge for me, too. Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash As an author, turning an idea into words, paragraphs, pages, and books is relatively easy. My art is storytelling, my primary medium in novel form. As an authorpreneur, self-publishing the book is also relatively easy. I’ve created and produced sufficient books that I thoroughly get this part. Sending the book out for editing, going
Working Words From Different Angles My main focus might be fiction, but it’s not my only focus. Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash At the end of 2011, following a desire to get back to writing on a more regular basis, I made my first-ever New Year’s Action. I set a day that I would write a blog post every week. I’d been a writer on and off for most of my life. I had
Another New Novel Release Day The next novel in my Forgotten Fodder series goes live. Forgotten Fodder Book 6 Audiobook Cover by Rose Butcher Today, the next novel in my Forgotten Fodder series goes live! Even after writing another sci-fi trilogy and a humorous sci-fi standalone, the characters from my clone, crime, and conspiracy sci-fi series are too much in my head to be ignored. They had more stories to be told. While I finished
Just Because I Think This Is Easy, Not Everyone Else Does Sometimes this is easy to forget. Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash I feel a veritable compulsion to write. Ideas come into my head, both for fiction and nonfiction, and I must place my hands on the keys and tap them out. Sometimes this flows easily. My fingers fly across the keys, and before I know it, there’s a blog, a chapter, or some other
How Much Patience Do I Have? Patience is a larger part of the creative process when you turn pro. Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash I started self-publishing in 2013. Since then, I have published the first 2 books of my fantasy series (that I’m not sure will ever be finished), three different sci-fi series that include 13 books with 3 more on the way, and 2 standalones. That means I’ve put 17 books out
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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).