I love National Novel Writing Month. Every November, I pit myself against my word count, and I inevitably improve as a writer and a storyteller. The first few years, I crafted novels. First draft, story arc, plotline, character development, novels. Long-form works of this scope are exhausting, creatively. I love writing them, and I love [...]
It’s only because I am consciously rocking the gut this summer that I noticed: I have been continually holding tension in my abdomen. Tight in my center. That’s me. This unfortunate side effect of staying in shape has created energetic blocks between myself and what I want to manifest. By staying tense, pulling in [...]
According to the rules of the #trust30 writing prompts, this is my first day (out of 30) of trusting myself, and writing what needs to be written. Todays prompt: We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph [...]
Today I went out for a beer with a box of my old notebooks. The box down center, not the four shelves behind it; the corpus and I have a date next month for Collage, when I cull whats worth keeping from a decades worth of shopping lists and examination notes. What I found this [...]
I didn't think I was going to partake in National Novel Writing Month this year. I really didn't. But I've got a huge project I am brainstorming on, and getting ready to move on in the next few weeks. All I really need to do is spend some time kicking the idea into shape and [...]
I’m at a loss here. I am cranking out blogs faster than posts, it seems. […]
I have to get my ebook off the ground. I have done some great manifestation, work, now it is time to put it together. I need a schedule. I need a launch date. I need a launch plan. I need a sales page for my website. I need the blog attached and running. And I [...]