A Writer of Fiction Tries Poetry Two questions to ponder. How often do you step out of your comfort zone, and what happens when you do? In a previous post, Growing As A Writer, I mentioned some of the things you can do to “grow as a writer” while revising your fiction for submission, such as taking […]
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Lost on the Internet
Sometimes I prefer educating myself as a writer using books rather than the Internet, because with books I stay on track and with the Internet I get sidetracked. One link leads to two others and then these lead to another five, until hours later I’ve forgotten my original purpose or how to get back to […]
The Indigo Evolution, Part 2
Here is part 2 of The Indigo Evolution–narrated by Neale Donald Walsch–which I introduced in a previous post. In case you’re unfamiliar with Walsch, he is the author of the series, Conversations with God. He also stars in the movie, Indigo. HERE you can find the full length video on The Indigo Evolution. And here is a partial description of what […]
The Indigo Evolution
In metaphysics, which is the study of everything outside of what science can measure, Indigos, Transitional Children, New Children, and Children of the Now are a much talked about–if not universally accepted–phenomenon, and I introduce them as characters in my fourth novel, Between Now and Forever. Is there such a thing as a new generation […]
Social Media / Socialnomics
According to Wikipedia, Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. They support the democratization of knowledge and information and transform people from content consumers to content producers. Short and Sweet summary: social med […]
Psycho Cybernetics and the Writer
In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics. In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with. Today, there are hundreds of books on self-image psychology […]