Standing Stones in Texas
It’s weird how information so available now wasn’t years back. Without it, some things became relegated to the status of a mystery, the substance of wonder.
The Successful Writer’s Personal Hero’s Journey
To be a successful writer is on a personal hero’s journey. To venture on, the writer must take the necessary steps outside the norm, and face the Threshold Guardians.
Moving, The Virus, and Cat Scratching Posts
Moving to a new home is exciting, but it’s mostly exhausting. With stuff everywhere, it’s hard to rest or write when there’s a list of things to do and things to put away. I need the home to flow before I can settle into something artsy. During our move, Bard, our tuxedo cat…
Writing Professionally – Learning from Mistakes
“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you …
Resistance and the War of Art
“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. …
What Did You Learn to become a Professional Writer?
Authoring novels and books is definitely an expedition with pitfalls, lessons, and wins all along the way. Here are a few valuable things things that I learned when becoming a professional writer. I hope some of them will help you in your work.
Honor Your Writing & Creativity
Make a space that honors your writing and creativity.
My Cover Art
When Rigoli and I started writing together, I’d create cover art. It helped to make the writing—our books—feel real…
Writers, we are warriors.
Maybe the Muses demand a price for artistic glory. Perhaps the challenges we face and the obstacles to overcome in the journey to create and get works out is not for the faint.
Using Art in Journals
Writing journals here and there since high school, many of them are filled with songs, lyrics, drawings, pasted collages, ponderings, and more. …