Author Archive

It Starts Today

Today. The word carries such power.  Today! It's what you make it. What will you do with it? How will you use it? Does it compel you to suit up, face your fears, believe the evidence that it will pass so soon, and seize it while you can? Do you hear the voices calling out from the picture on the
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A Better Way to Sell Out

Writing makes me happy. But I have something of a strained relationship with publishing. Being an introvert, I don’t want the spotlight, though being human, I do like being well-regarded. Publishing is legitimizing, but it’s also exposing, which depending on your personality can be invigorating or shall we say unpleasant, as in fly-unzipped-on-laundry-day awkward. So if I’m going to do
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The Formula

You know how I know books are children? Because they can be such snots to their parents. Michaelangelo, when asked why he didn’t have a wife or children, said his wife was his art and his works were his children. And when those children are little, they can be completely irrational. If you want to be a parent of this
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Some YourWritersGroup.com Nibbles and Bits…

So, obviously, the new website is not here yet. And I'm really fine with it. Honest… Blast you, cursed warden of my inspired hopes and dreams! When I first dreamed up this website I've been alluding to since last October (or was it September?), I knew there'd be a catch. But it turns out these masterpieces of technology and beauty take
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What to think

Why am I blocked, Lord? What’s going on? I came here so full of hope and excited for what I thought you were leading me to, but now I’m feeling blocked from moving forward. Am I too busy? Is there too much in the way? Am I not listening, allowing distractions to close my ears? What can I do? Or
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