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Weight of Negativity
Many writers may acknowledge imposter syndrome, the feeling that despite feedback, their work is not that great. Negative comments, even if rare, take on disproportional weight. That’s me. Lately, I have been plagued by a negative comment that I received during a poll of my new book blurb. Results were good, but I received one… Continue reading
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Service to Others
When I reflected on this daily prompt, I thought of my family. Their well being, my wife and my kids, is my main focus. It directs my life, worrying about their well being and making sure I am present to them. It made me realize that service to others gives me direction. When my parents… Continue reading
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Words are Funny
I have two sisters, my older and younger sister. Many people take this to mean I am a middle child, but in fact, I am the oldest. I have two younger sisters, one is older than the other… My older sister is actually the middle child. I know I could clear this up by referring… Continue reading
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Attitude is Everything
My mother told me in her later days, that mentally she felt the same as when she was twenty. She never felt old. All the way to her last days, it was only her body that failed. She was an avid reader, and kept at it all the way to a week before she passed… Continue reading
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Out of My Cave
I’ve been getting help with marketing my book. It’s amazing how much I didn’t know when I published my first book. I just finished a new blurb that will go on my back cover and into my metadata. I feel pretty good about it, and surprised myself. I didn’t think I could do it, but… Continue reading
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Backward is Forward
As I am developing my books, I have this idea that once I finish something I must go on to the next thing, always trudge forward. However, sometimes redoing something to make it better is the best course. Recently, I found out my first book was riddled with errors. I did have a review process.… Continue reading
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When I Was Young
When I was young, I got tired of everybody telling me I looked so childlike, because there was implication that came with it: that I was immature and not to be taken seriously. I was digging through some old pictures me. I found a picture of some friends taken at an alumni college gathering. My… Continue reading
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Set Back
I grew up with this idea that I shouldn’t mistakes, so if I did, I would move forward anyway trying to live with it rather than start over. Currently, I discovered that my first book has more errors than I first thought, so I am faced with living with an inferior book or fixing it.… Continue reading
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Fold Space
The daily prompt just asked about risk taking yesterday, and I just wrote about the risk I took with publishing. Another aspect of deciding to publish was how did it work out to take the risk. The jury is still out, because I’m still learning about marketing. No matter what happens as far as sales,… Continue reading
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Publishing
I’m lucky because I can afford to pay a company to publish my books, making me an independent author, an Indie Author, which sounds more like a thing. One might say it is less risk than approaching the traditional publishing world, where I risk plenty of rejection. But putting my work out there in any… Continue reading
About Me
Indie author and self taught artist, creating for over fifty years, also a former corporate lawyer and systems manager … and other assorted vocations. Writing is my passion. I just released my first science fiction novel, Escape From Desolation, eBook and paperback. More information at my author page: http://escapefromdesolation.com
