Category: blogging

• July 7, 2024

  Sometimes, winning is just showing up.

  With tons of changes going on at the day job, I’m feeling anxious and worn out, and I didn’t have a topic to blog about today. I’m tired. I don’t feel like writing a post here on WordPress. It feels like an unnecessary expenditure of energy I don’t have. So I came up with this…
• June 8, 2024

  We are creatures of habit. This can work for or against us. Tap into it!

  I’ve been thinking about how we are creatures of habit, because I used to schedule all my posts here to release at 6:55 AM. I took a break, and when I came back to blogging daily, I decided to try releasing posts a little later in the day, at 10:00 AM. Because I still have…
• June 1, 2024

  A New Month! What are your plans and goals?

  Now that May and my book launch are past, apart from continuing to push and market my Herezoth trilogy (e-book and paperback available on Amazon), my focus will be on three things: I’m writing this in advance, towards the beginning of May. I already have planned to take the entire week of Memorial Day off…
• May 24, 2024

  Who will enjoy “The Magic Council: The Fight for Home”?

  With a book launch coming up next Thursday, May 30 on Amazon, I wanted to take a moment to let you know who is most likely to enjoy the book, and to ask for your help to make my launch successful. Readers who enjoy: will enjoy The Magic Council: The Fight for Home. This is…
• May 8, 2024

  300 blog posts! And 200 (okay, 199) subscribers! Thank you! And yes, persistence pays off.

  I would lie if I said my relationship to blogging these days is anything other than love/hate. I think the issue is I am comparing this blog to the blog I ran in blogging’s heyday back in 2012-2014, when I got thousands of hits a month. Sigh. But I’ve been running this blog for almost…
• April 23, 2024

  Here’s why I’m blogging daily again

  You may have noticed I’m back! I’ve been blogging daily again for about a week now. There are two principal reasons for this. The first is that I pay for the domain and the platform. I mention this blog/website in the back matter of my books, directing readers here as one of the best places…
• April 22, 2024

  The blog/ social media roller coaster: part two

  The social media roller coaster–inane, stupid content getting nocticed, important and useful posts getting absolutely throttled by the algorithm–can be frustrating, deflating, and confusing. I can’t tell you how to beat the algorithm. I have no idea. But here’s what I do to handle the situation as best I can: So, this is what I…
• April 21, 2024

  The blog/ social media roller coaster: part one

  Today, I want to outline what I call the online “roller coaster” for artists and small businesses. Tomorrow I will discuss the things that help me ride the ups and downs in a healthy way. The roller coaster has two phases. THE RISE: social media and blogs (SM especially) are set up so that you…
• April 15, 2024

  Quick, easy tips to improve fiction writing (and some hard truths as well)

  You may have heard most, or all of these, before. But I have seen the importance of them, how easy they are to implement, and how much they have improved the quality of my writing. Those are easy fixes. Now to some deeper, hard truths for aspiring writers out there. You do NOT need an…
• December 18, 2023

  Big blog update! Changing my schedule

  I just wanted to announce that I am updating/changing my blog schedule. I’ve been toying with this for a bit and have decided it’s very necessary and will get me excited about the blog again. I’ll be going to a 4x weekly schedule. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I will blog about my fiction or about…