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  • Vital Art – OMAC!

    O_OmacIconCRAZY Doesn’t Cover It!

    I just finished revisiting Jack Kirby’s OMAC opus from 1974, and I’m trying to find a pithy way to encapsulate it for the uninitiated – the best I can come up with is “Like Philip K. Dick if his target audience was 7.” (more…)

  • Journal – 02/09/15: Satori

    S_SatoriIconClearly my own worst enemy

    I need to caveat this acknowledging that my life’s fine – I got no worries, no anxieties – my ambitions for a life paid for by my creations is a decision and a choice. It’s been with me from a young age. (more…)

  • Teachable: How NOT to Write a Novel

    Icon_NOTWhy I’m an Expert on This Subject:

    It took me something like ten years to finish my first novel, with the actual writing time being more like two years. When I wrote my second novel it took less than a year. I didn’t get better at it, I just got real at it. For me the value of experience is to pass it on in the hopes that other’s can benefit from your mental disorders. So, read on to (as it’s said in”The House of the Rising Sun”) not to do as I have done! (more…)

  • Journal – 02/05/15

    Skeleton_IconSome Day’s Just Ain’t Right

    Good God! What a weird energy day – mind you, I have no truck with metaphysics – but this day seemed committed to bummer mojo! Nothing specific, just seemed like every time I looked up something nuts was going on – not to me, just in my mental ecosystem. (more…)

  • Teachable: Who’s NOT an Energy Vampire?

    VampireIconI encourage people to avoid energy vampires, but I realized I didn’t have a quick explanation of what the opposite was, what makes for a decent human? I make no claims to original thinking on this topic, but think you can’t go wrong looking for these traits. (more…)

  • PsychHack – 3 Things Worth Doing

    Barney_SquareMake the life you want

    I say this all the time, but I think what most folks hear is “After you do that thing, make the life you want”. No, I’m talking take immediate action, right now, to create the life you want. I’m speaking to the habit of creating your life, its a habit that generates its own reality, if you do it often enough you forget what it’s like to worry, wait and ponder why things are the way they are. (more…)

  • Journal – 01/30/15

    Icon_ThumbsUpWeekly Round-up!

    Yeeha! Another work week in the can, and looking forward to creating a weekend worth living. Just want to jot down a few things of note – both what needs to be done moving forward, and things to remember. (more…)

  • Journal – 01/29/15

    Blog_DoublePhotoGeneral Ramblings

    Don’t have an overarching topic today, but I do have a grab-bag of things on my mind, which include:

    Dream Update & Getting back in the groove

    Excitement for my novel

    General Bewilderment with People

    Like any diary entry, I’m just trying to capture thoughts both to make sense of them, and for future use (but you never know when it can help somebody – that’s why I share!) (more…)

  • Journal – 01/28/15

    Blog_GoneGirlEphemera I’m Consuming

    One of the most important things an artist does is consume art, in whatever form. My bias leans toward books, film and comics – if only because I can take them in “on demand” in a life that’s often over-leveraged. So, I thought it would be fun from time to time to give an accounting of what I’m into at a given moment – assume everything is a rousing endorsement unless otherwise indicated!

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  • Journal – 01/27/15

    Blog_SpiderWebDreamweaver

    Been having some solid, crazy dreams lately, with vast story arcs and amazingly detailed imagery. Exactly the kind of stuff I can use to fill my creative pipeline when my waking mind fails me.

    Of course, I lose them the second I wake, which is really pissing me off so I’m committing  to a formal capture activity to see if its possible to document this stuff before it goes poof. (more…)