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Camino Child – The Next Phase
How is your springtime shaping up? In northern California it has been beautiful. Too beautiful in fact. We need rain. But we’ll enjoy this for as long as it lasts. Last week, I posted this on Facebook: “I’m just back from my first ever writers conference. If you are a writer, and have not been to a conference, you owe it to yourself. I went with a bag full of questions. But the main query in my mind for the weekend was, what’s next? What do I need to learn, write, stretch myself at in the weeks and months ahead?” The post went on from there. It’s been a while…
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I am an Author, a Writer
I have a hard time saying those words. Steven King is an author. J.K. Rowling is an author. Neil Gaiman is a writer. Many of my friends are extraordinary writers. I pen various articles and posts for my blogs, scribble flash fiction and short stories, and have authored novels. I’ve been published in magazines and industry journals. I study the art religiously. However, I’m not sure I’m a writer. Yet, my wife says that I am. “You type away on your Mac all damn morning,” she says. I have been known to write while standing in line at Disneyland using my smartphone. I formulate whole plot lines while driving (this…
