Living a creative life
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. My second novel, Paradise West, is now available in paperback and digital formats. Running 309 pages long in the trade paperback edition, Paradise West is a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the near future. A brief teaser for the story and characters can be found at the Paradise West…
Choose your experts, then let your experts do the choosing.
For all the stereotypes of urban isolation, the city is an intimate experience, if you embrace it and allow it to embrace you. It's not always friendly, no place is, but it always offers something new. Click on this link (or go through the menu above) for a small album of photographs exploring the city…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. Writing is my primary creative outlet. It's healthy to maintain more than one form of creative expression, however, and photography is another passion of mine. I've sold a few images over the years, but I don't aspire to professional status. Photography is just something I enjoy. Urban settings…
The most difficult step of any undertaking is often the beginning.
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I recently self-published a novella that I started writing in 2017. It was inspired by the life (and death, in early 2017) of a dog that I adopted from a shelter in 2002. It's called Buddy and Thomas, and it's about a stubborn dog that disrupts the life…
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. Last time, I recorded a few thoughts on my experience self-publishing my novel in paperback format via CreateSpace. I also published the book in digital format via Kindle DIrect Publishing (KDP) and wanted to share a few thoughts on that, also. In 2017, I self-published a short business…
What are some ways you can disrupt your own life or career?
Maybe rock and roll was inevitable, with or without Chuck Berry. But the fact remains that he was the one who advanced the state of the art.
How do we select a "final" version of a work? Do we even need to?
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