As some of you might recall, my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. One of the amazing gifts I received is something called, “The Writer’s Block,” which is a cube-shaped book containing over 700 ideas to help stoke the imagination. From time to time, I’m going to take one of the ideas from that book and showcase it here. I’ve already picked the first one, and I’m looking forward to sharing it. For now,…
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Most of us toiling away at work every day live for moments of downtime – when we’re away from work and can do as we please. My friends and I have dreamed, at one time or another, about what it could be like to not have to work at all. What would it be like to have a full day open to do as much or as little as you’d like? I used to think…
A writer’s work is never truly done, in my opinion. I think that a good practice is to always be working on something – whether it’s a full writing project, outlines for a potential project, or a blog. Before the end of the year, my first novel will be fully immersed in the beta-reading stage. That means it’ll be out of my hands until the jury, er, beta readers read it through and provide input. …
That was the question. The tagline for this blog is, “Many Incarnations – Only One Original,” because I have written (unpublished works) under three pseudonyms. After recently making the decision to push through and advance my career as a writer, I was faced with the choice of whether relaunch my presence and intentions under my real name, or go back to the comforting anonymity of a moniker of my creation. I took a poll among…
It can be challenging to figure out when might be the best time to launch a blog. Well, my reasoning is very simple. Today is my birthday. This is my gift to myself – the gift of pressing forward and indulging in something I’ve loved since I was a child. …that, and it also makes it easy to remember the anniversary of the blog…