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Freeform Sharing When I’m Uncertain and Need to Get Unstuck

June 20, 2023

This is a rambling, jumbled, uncertain mess – but I know others go through this sort of thing, too. The upside to being an indie author is that, to all intents and purposes, I’m an independent business. Maybe the term is authorpreneur? That’s fancy and probably a bit pretentious. I choose when I write, what I write, how to publish and market my work, and am accountable to myself on every level. This brings me

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Do All Creatives Second-Guess Their Work?

Do All Creatives Second-Guess Their Work?

June 13, 2023

Maybe, maybe not. I know that I do. I’ve self-published a dozen books, sci-fi, fantasy, and Steampunk. As of this writing, I have 4 completed books I’ve edited that need to go to an editor. I have 3 unedited, complete books and am nearing the end of a 4th. The new series I’ve been working on – Savagespace – was planned and plotted to be 6 books total. As planned, they’d be around 200 pages

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Coordinating all the elements of writing work is not without challenges

Organizing, Writing, and Coordinating – Oh My!

June 6, 2023

Coordinating all the elements of writing work is not without challenges. First and foremost, I’m a storyteller. Whether it’s a blog, podcast, fiction, or recounting a tale from my frequently awesome life experiences, I love to tell the stories. For a time, finding and crossing the bridge between my works – fiction, nonfiction, business – occupied much of my focus. Then I got it in hand and moved past it. Until I needed to reorganize

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As smart as AI is, genuine artists will never be replaced.

Why Can’t and Won’t AI Replace Genuine Artists?

May 30, 2023

As smart as AI is, genuine artists will never be replaced. Art in its many forms is an expression of the soul. I don’t care how smart or self-aware AI (artificial intelligence) gets – it will never have a soul. Sure, it might be able to emulate people and thought processes in many ways. Eventually, they might even be able to synthetically feel. But they will never create with soul because they haven’t got one.

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Books and the arts are amazing sources of practical magic

Can You See the Same Magic That I See in Books and the Arts?

May 23, 2023

Books and the arts are amazing sources of practical magic. I have no idea how old I was when I learned to read. I’d guess I was probably 3 or 4 – since I believe that I was able to read the famous text crawl at the start of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope, if you must) before I was 5 years old. Reading has been a love for as long as I

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fun with words and grammar pet peeves. The writing is on the wall written on a wall

What Are Some of Your Word and Phrase Pet Peeves?

May 16, 2023

I have a few pet peeves when it comes to words and phrases people (mis)use. (Authors note: This exploration of grammatical pet peeves is meant to be humorous, not condescending, or judgmental). I come by most of my snobbery via my dad. But it’s his grammar snobbery I appreciate the most, I think. Years ago, in my 20s, driving to an appointment with him, we were listening to NPR. The anchors were discussing how many

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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.

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