Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Getting your work noticed and reviewed is one of the hardest parts of going your own way as an indie author. You discover that there are rules and etiquette along the way. But I've tried to keep plugging and was rewarded with an email the other day from someone who had read "Shorts" and had... Continue Reading →
With my last post, I included a picture of a typewriter. You may have thought it was just a visual metaphor for writing in general. In fact, it has a much more personal meaning than that. The model shown, a Remington Quiet-Riter, is the typewriter on which I learned to type. It was my father's,... Continue Reading →
Once upon a time, the short story was king. Published in newspapers and magazines, short fiction could be found everywhere. All the great writers could handle the form. Today, short fiction is considered a bit of a sideshow. We've taken it to the extreme of flash fiction, even Twitter stories, where an entire story is... Continue Reading →
Can't really do a cover "reveal" since I've had the cover posted here since the day we launched this website. Thought I'd take a minute to discuss it, though. First, I did a very bad thing. I designed it myself. All the experts are very clear that authors should NEVER design their cover. We shouldn't... Continue Reading →
(A repost of some of my earlier blogging on other sites. I am occasionally re-posting ones that I think are interesting. Originally posted December 17, 2008) When I woke up this morning I knew it wasn't any better. My lady wife has been asking me for days if something was wrong and I kept telling... Continue Reading →
am partly terrified and partly excited. Those two feelings continue to battle their way through my heart and mind. In the end, I have decided to risk failure and plunge into this entire adventure. I have been a storyteller all my life. I've even managed to find ways to make a living as a storyteller.... Continue Reading →
(I am bringing back some posts from a previous blog I no longer maintain. They are pieces that I am proud of and that I believe still have value. This was first published in March of 2006) It goes against everything we seem to hear about how to deal with you these days. We’re supposed... Continue Reading →
So this is the post where I explain that my writing is keeping me from my writing. Seriously. In the average week, here is the bottom line writing that I have committed to creating: Three approximately five hundred word scripts for my radio program "The View From the Phlipside". Those scripts then have to be... Continue Reading →
When I looked back at the archived posts from my old blog I kept hitting pieces that I really liked. So I think I'm going to start posting some of them now and then. Besides, this blog is rapidly descending into a "all weight loss, all the time" blog. That was never my intent. The... Continue Reading →
Without thinking about it till I was well into adulthood I have always had a creative side. Acting out stories, making them up to amuse myself, singing, acting, a little sketching now and then were all ways that I was expressing that creative desire in myself. I've been blessed to be around a lot of... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 