I’ve done a lot of writing over the years. A LOT! *chuckles* The majority of it has been in the form of articles, of which I have written thousands. I’ve put out a fair number of books though, and I’m quite proud of that, overall. I’ve had some ups and downs…
I’m not going to lie; I have no idea how to arrange this book. There are so many little things that you can do when it comes to mundane magic, it’s hard for me to figure out a logical progression for it. I’m going to do the best I can,…
Yesterday I posted about how I was digging Mundane Magic out and working on it. I actually have more than 20 sections ready to go. Unfortunately, I didn’t sleep worth a damn last night, so my brain wasn’t really in the creative space today. The good thing is, MM isn’t…
A few days ago I got an idea for a way to add some content to the blog, and I’m currently working on getting it going. I’m going to release my latest book, Mundane Magic, as a blog series as I work on it. You all know how much I…
Oh, what a misleading title! I have to laugh at this now, and wonder what I was thinking. I suppose I thought that I wasn’t going to be writing anymore, and that this book would be everything I’d ever done. However, despite a very long dry spell, I did write…
This book, as the title suggests, was a long time in the making. Nearly two decades of poetry is collected in this one massive volume. It’s not just poetry either, it’s the story of my life. I’ll talk more about how these poems are a representation of my life…
This book actually started off as an online series. I wanted to share various quotes and tidbits that I’d learned throughout my life with the public, so I started writing them up and putting them on my blog. Once I had all 365 entries, I decided to turn it into…
This is my biggest book ever, and an accomplishment that I’m very proud of. It’s also the first book I’ve ever done that was a team effort. It took six weeks to complete, but was actually over a decade in the making. I started compiling herbal information from across the…
I know I told you all that I was already working on a new book, but I don’t think I gave you any real details about it, so I’m going to do that right now. My latest project is tentatively called Mundane Magic: Making Your Everyday Life Magical. It’s something…
Oh man, this is becoming one hell of a project. We’re mid-way through the Ms right now, and trying to get through the rest as quickly as possible while still getting things right. Research is never as quick as you want it to be if you’re doing it right. We’re…
Creative Writing Exercise: Create a story based on a common item nearby (zipper) *** Zapper the Zipper was a zestful little Zipper. All Zippers were zestful, but Zapper was more so than most. When this Zipper was zero, the age before naming, he found something fun. He found that if…
Creative Writing Exercise: Name one food (broccoli), one common item (stickers) and a color (blue). Write a short story based on these things. *** Once upon a time there was a field. Growing in this field was a most interesting plant. The plant was blue broccoli. It was a lovely…
There is a darkness. It envelops. It consumes. It is everywhere. It swallows the minds of all it touches. It washes over them like black rain, drenching them in its emptiness. They do not see it. They are woefully unaware. They carry on their lives, the darkness eating away at…
Everywhere I look there is magic. The birth of a child, the blossoming of a flower. The forming of snowflakes, the eruption of a volcano. The love of a mother, the ferocity of a predator. All this is magic, just of the sort not controlled by men, but by nature.…