I had a wonderful creative breakthrough yesterday. You see, for several weeks now I have been stuck trying to find a solution to a plot line problem in one of my book projects. It has seriously been bugging me. So much so that I haven’t worked on it in a while. Also, because it feels…
Continue reading →For our purposes here, since not everyone reading this is a man and not everyone is married, feel free to substitute woman, and/or partner, and/or friend. I looked up the word sympathetic in the dictionary. While the first definition was somewhat benign, what struck me more was the list of synonyms: Compassionate, caring, concerned, understanding,…
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Each one of us has a story about who we are and the role we play in our world. It is a story that we a familiar with. We have it memorized. We can recall it in an instant. And we share it with everybody. But more important, it is the story we tell ourselves…
Continue reading →Here is a disclaimer before I continue: This is not my fortune from this week’s lunch. It actually belongs to a loud, twenty-something girl sitting in the booth full of women office workers next to me. I found it so funny I had to comment on it. I will write about my actual fortune next…
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Almost every time I sit down to do some creative project—a logo design, a hand-drawn illustration, a painting, a piece of literary fiction—I come to what I like to call The Point of Despair. When my inner critic pipes up. You know what I’m talking about. You’ve heard the voice as well: “This is pointless.”…
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