It is not an edit, a fix, a mistake. It is an opportunity. A chance to make something better. Who is this world hasn’t benefitted from a second chance in some way or another? I know I have. In fact, I can think of many times when I’ve been given many more chances than I …
Wow. I found this in my drafts folder. I thought I had posted more about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. I guess not. It strikes me that since I read Meditations that Ai has been creeping more and more into our lives and even our minds. In the year or so that I read Meditations, Ai has …
Rosenberg’s critique shifted the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished painting being only the physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of the actual work of art, which was in the act or process of the painting’s creation. Action Writing? So, my novels are residue? I’ll take that. I’ll take whatever …
Thinking is hard. Reacting isn’t. Working on something of any worth requires intention and attention. Producing activity is easy. I am not sure about all you all, but I have hard time sitting still. Somewhere inside me a little voice with a big mouth is telling me that I have to be doing something. The …
I was finally able to revise and upgrade the cover of my first novel, Tripio. It had been bugging me for years, like something your doctor would mention at your yearly check-up. Not life threatening, or even painful, but maybe you should do something about it. And so, the process never made it to the …
I am on a break from writing, having just finished The Travels of the Trier. I would even use the word sabbatical, since I wrote Travels on the heels of The Trier goes to London, after writing The Trier, revising Ironjaws, revising Back outta the World, and writing Tripio. Included in all those were edits, …
I’m writing this blog post mostly because I don’t have a book in my head at the moment. It has been a while. I remember after finished The Trier I told myself I would take a break before starting the next one. Not to be. I made no deal with myself as I moved onto …
I chose that to headline for this list of mediation wisdoms that resonated with me while reading A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation. I use it because the list will only make sense if you’ve practiced meditation before, or at least you will recognize the wisdom in them. It is like having someone explain the …
The value of human interaction Over the past weekend, I attended via the cloud, the 2024 THE ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS Publishing for Profit’ Self-Publishing Advice Conference. I could only attend a couple sessions. One that I felt I had to sit in one was Penny Sansevieri’s presentation on Selling books without Social Media. Social …
“For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in fine books and embellished in fine languages with finer covers, – man-all man-is still confronted with the Great Mystery” -Chief Luther Standing Bear Oglala Sioux
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