One thing I need to do in the new year, is to take care of myself better. Specifically, take care of my body. I know this seems like a weird statement coming from me because I’ve written several times about my successful fitness journey over the last year or so, but there are still some things out of balance. And I’m going to be super honest about this with you […]
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I’m already on record, stating how 2025 was a banner year for me. I feel kind of weird stating that, since it sucked so bad for so many other people, but for me it went really well (effects of the national and international shitshow notwithstanding). I had four releases, wrote two entire novels, moved into graphic design professionally, and established a work and life schedule that was productive and, more
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2025 was kind of a big year for me, even if it wasn’t in any major groundbreaking way (I did not crack the USA Today list, sorry to say). However … I published 4 books: Beneath the Silent Stars (Broken Stars Finale)Ghosts of Exile and Other Stories (My first short story collection) World Enough and Time (Standalone Contemporary Sci-Fi romance) The Lion and the Sparrow (Standalone Fantasy Romance) I ended
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As humans, we have the tendency to frame things in terms of future circumstances. I’ll be happy when … After this week things will calms down … when I finish these projects I can finally relax … Once these three things happen, I will be satisfied … and this feels true to us, because why wouldn’t it? And to a certain extent, when the goals are centered on removing obstacles
I’ve recently stumbled upon a concept that directly relates to which creative processes work for which people. This certainly applies to me, and maybe other people will find it helpful. Here goes … I think we all can agree that everyone’s brain is on a spectrum between order and chaos. WE call this the left brain/right brain thing, but the left/right construct is a fallacy that is not actually how
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This one’s kind of a quickie, because I’m probably going to need to go into protective custody once you’re all done reading it, and I really need to pack. Writers, I love you, I really do, so take this advice in the spirit in which it is intended… Writing Advice No One Wants to Hear If you’ve been working on the same book for ten years and it’s still not
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They followed the road into the forest. Everything was quiet, except the wind, which had kicked up a couple of hours ago. Should they be preparing for a spring storm? A glance at the sky revealed only wispy, distant clouds. Malcolm caught up to Moli. She was wearing her dark green forester’s tunic and brown pants, the badge of her office pinned to her cloak. She scanned the ground around
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Ok, so I have once again adjusted my writing plans taking me through 2039. I’m thinking of this as the current cycle of my life, which really started in 2019 when I started making my writing the focus of what I was doing. This schedule is based on how long it actually takes me to work, so feel confident that I can meet these dates. But if life attacks and
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All of us who are trying to be creators, of whatever stripe, need to manage our resources carefully. We come from all sorts of backgrounds, have whatever amount of money available for our pursuits (or not at all) We have different resources of time whatever our concordant responsibilities, but there’s one thing absolutely everyone has, and it’s unreplaceable. Your most important creative asset is yourself. No one else can create
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There’s one question writers seem to get a lot. We all get it. We all have a rote answer for it, that differs from writer to writer. Here’s the question: Where do you get your ideas? My answer to this is: from everywhere. Ideas are literally everywhere. I have twenty ideas for stories every morning before I have my coffee. They’re not GOOD ideas, all the time. They need to
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