Category: About Me

What Would It Be Like To… now on BizCatalyst 360°

Sometime towards the end of December 2024, I talked privately with 360° Nation’s Founder and Chief Reimaginator Dennis Pitocco and explained my participation in group meetings would be spotty, iffy, at best moving forward.

My reason is simple; the meetings weren’t filling any of my needs. This is indigenous to me and I’m not claiming such is the case for anyone else.

 
Dennis asked what kind of meetings would fill my needs and I provided an overview. The types of meetings I enjoy and attend are something I’ve spent lots of time wondering about, and I shared what I could.

Dennis invited me to write something about what I wanted in a meeting for posting on the BizCatalyst 360° site.

What I came up with is What Would It Be Like To…, which is now available for your reading pleasure.

And be sure to comment.

An Experiment in Writing – Part 6: Authenticity

I’m going on to a side topic in this one.

Okay, a hidden mainstream topic in this one. Because it’s really about marketing although most people might not think so.

Today’s topic is based on some conferences I attended over the past month and some classes I’ve taken during that same time period.

Yeah, busy me, I know.

Summing up (because this experiment’s a long one):

  1. Write from the self so your writing is true
  2. Trust your audience/reader to get your message (if your work has one, of course)
  3. Be true with them so #2 works with them

 
Think I’m onto something? Take a class with me or schedule a critique of your work.
Think I’m an idiot? Let me know in a comment.
Either way, we’ll both learn something.

Go get my books!

WordCrafter Press’ Kaye Lynne Booth and I chat about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Good Protagonists on Writing to Be Read’s Chatting with the Pros

It’s flattering when people take an interest.

A good, healthy, interest, of course…

Which leads to macabre, horrific stories.

 
Kaye Lynne Booth share how I first came to her attention and all that transpired since on her Chatting with the Pros “Writing to Be Read” blog.

Give it a read and let us know what you think.

An Experiment in Writing – Part 1

Been talking to lots of people about ways to share my knowledge and experience.

The first problem is, lots of people are of the opinion I have lots of knowledge and experience.

I’m hoping this experiment – a series of videos about writing which I’ll post every Wednesday or so…if it even becomes a series and if I see another Wednesday – will help them change their opinion.

Originally I called these “Writing 101 SnEm” (SnEm == series and episode number) and decided that both ambitious and haugty.

Ambitious I’ll cop to. Haughty? You decide.

Here’s An Experiment in Writing – Part 1. Enjoy.

 
Pick up a copy of Empty Sky, one of the books I’ll be referencing in this series (should you not already have one (shame on you!)) and want to follow along.

The Long Journey of The Wounded Healers

I last posted about The Book of the Wounded Healers (a Study in Perception), a work-in-near continual-progress, on 25 July 2022. There were two other more recent mentions and not about reworking the novel for publication.

As you can read in The Book of The Wounded Healers
(a study in perception): Frame and Chapter 1 – The First Communication, the novel had an arduous ride to that point.

Well, not one to let a good story go and also recognizing it wasn’t getting any better, I once again shelved the novel.

Until now.

I did some minor edits and invited folks to be first readers in my July 2024 Newsletter.

Some brave folks agreed.

That’s when the painful fun began.
Continue reading “The Long Journey of The Wounded Healers“