Quite the Life (and all in Times New Roman 10pt!)
BizCatalyst 360°’ Chief Imagineer and Founder Dennis Pitocco wrote a beautiful forward to my The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception), and also offered to share some chapters (selected by my first readers) on the BizCatalyst 360° site.
First up is Chapter 19 – Home Runs.
Enjoy.
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.
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“
My non-fiction piece, “The Difference” appears in a monumental, breakthrough (my opinions, these, and not because I have a piece in the book) anthology UNSHELTERED-None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home.
Speaking for myself, adding my contribution – even offering to do so – proved a great challenge, almost too great. I recounted one of the most difficult and painful periods of my life. I’ve always written based on my experiences, and always behind the mask of characters in some story or novel, never directly stating “This is me.”
Many deep thanks to Dennis Pitocco and Peggy Willms for accepting my contribution and publicly validating this period in my life.
The healing continues, for myself and I hope for others.
Thanks.
What, you didn’t know I had a Substack?
Well neener neener on you, I do.
Phhtt!
Been doing it for a while, been keeping it quiet because I substack rarely.
Only when I have a thought I doubt fits in here.
Give it a look, let me know what you think.
And thanks.
