Updates Gonna Happen

For a week or so, I’ve been working on updating my Etsy Shop. Editing the items I’ll be selling. How they’ll be listed. The schedule for listing. The style of listing. A lot of things. Simple, little things that are only going to make my shop look better. Very exciting and I’m glad I’m doing …

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Spending That Money to Hopefully Make That Money

All my life I have heard this phrase time and time again. “You gotta spend that money, to make that money.” I figured it made sense to spend a bit to make your dreams happen. We don’t live in a free world. But this statement’s larger meaning didn’t quite hit me until I started running …

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Any Progress is Good Progress

As usual, I would like to start out by apologizing for my silence. It’s surprisingly difficult to stick to writing in my blog when I have a lot of “to do” activities I seem to be working to avoid. Wait. What? Yes, you read that correctly. I have a lot of things I could be …

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Creativity Requires Patience

You might be ready to paint the greatest of all paintings or you could be sitting down to type up your greatest masterpiece yet. No matter where you hold your creativity, you must always be willing to wait. How many times have you been in line at checkout when a sudden comment from a stranger …

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Don’t Be Afraid to Take Breaks

In my previous post I mentioned how I was working to create a free to read comic to share online. It's been slow progress, but progress nonetheless. I've been doing my best to work on writing a couple chapters each week. There have been weeks when those couple chapters turn into zero chapters. Believe it …

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A Draft Will Make Writing Easier

How do you start writing your novels? Do you outline? Do you create characters? Do you push together random notes? There are a lot of ways to get your story moving forward. Everyone has their own way and they need to do what's best for them. I've tried different methods and every time I write …

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Don’t Let Your Excitement Ruin Your Tale

Before I begin knocking down anyone's excitement I need to make one fact clear: There is nothing wrong to hold excitement over the work you are trying to complete. It's always a thrill when you finally think up the prefect line for your work. I know you want to write it all out because it …

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Should I Write A Graphic Novel Series Or A Traditional Novel Series?

As I am sitting here with my coffee, I am trying to sort out what my plans are for today. Whenever I try to create plans I start thinking about everything I want to do. Usually, this pushes me away from all my possible plans and I get nothing done. This morning, all of my thoughts …

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