Tooting Your Own Horn

Over the past two weeks (Here and Here), I’ve been working on, and chronicling my attempt at formulating a career plan. To recap briefly, I’ve got my Mission statement: I want to be able to maintain, or improve my current lifestyle through telling stories. And I’ve got the first steps to achieving that plan: Write …

The Next Step

Welcome to the second installment of my November career planning series. Last week, I finalized my mission statement, which is: I want to be able to maintain, or improve my current lifestyle through telling stories. I also talked about one of the steps I need to take to get there: Write regularly. Again, this doesn’t …

Plans Within Plans

I need a plan. I suspect that you probably need one too. For the longest time, I’d been so focused on writing stories that – to my embarrassment – I’d neglected to do any long-term thinking about what comes next. To date, the majority of my goals concerning my authorial career can be summed up …

Getting Myself Off my Back

This is going to be a short one today. I’m just coming off the emotional roller-coaster of Wales beating France to move forward into the 2019 World Cup Semi-Finals – BY ONE POINT!!! And they only did manage to take the lead within the final six or so minutes of the match. That was a …

Writing Music…

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you probable know that I love music. I need music like I need to breathe (I’m listening to it right now – “Tonight we Ride” by Unleash the Archers – check them out here). I work best to music. I write to music. If, for …

Surprise the World

19-12 That was the final score of the Japan v. Ireland match last weekend at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Japan won. There weren’t a lot of people – myself included – who saw that coming. Sure, everyone knew that the *Potential* was there for Japan to win, but it was almost a foregone conclusion …

Penned In

It’s been a Pen on Paper kind of day, week, month…project. For those of you that know me, you know that I love writing longhand. If you know that, then you know I can’t do it for very long. My fingers will start to go numb and my already sketchy handwriting will stutter into illegibility. …

Letting Go

Tomorrow, it will have been one solid week that I’ve been querying my new book, titled, “Jade Moon Waning.” Jade Moon is my second book and, on the day that I decided that it was ready to go out, I sat back and thought to myself, “What next?” What next, indeed? One of the ways …