I recently learned that my brother-in-law proposed to his gorgeous girlfriend on New Year’s Day. I am absolutely thrilled, as she is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. She’s kind, genuine, and ridiculously intelligent. Did I mention she’s beautiful? She is also the mother to my niece, who irrevocably stole my heart on…
This morning, I met with the incredibly talented staff members of Different Perspective, a design/marketing/PR firm in Downtown Orlando. I had the opportunity to tell them a bit about myself, my life, and – most importantly – my professional goals as a writer. And they listened. On the 23rd of this month, I’ll be meeting…
This post is going to be short and sweet, as I have HOURS of homework to plow through tonight. Announcement: I officially have an appointment with a Web Development/Design/Marketing firm on Thursday. Downtown Orlando, 9:30am. A legitimate and well-respected firm. Holy crap. I’m really doing this. I’m officially taking the huge step [and investment] of…
Amidst the holiday break, the Director in my department sat down with the leadership team and asked us about our professional and personal goals for 2013. Most of us had very similar ambitions professionally [e.g. move up!] and only slight diversity in our personal goals – weight loss, run a marathon, go vegan, etc. It…
School resumes on January 7th. I’ll be starting a class entitled The Creative Writing Industry, which sounds as exciting as it does intimidating. This will be my 24th course at Full Sail University and I’ve only got eight more to go before graduation. Yipes! It’s around the corner, isn’t it? This has been the most…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see…
It has never been a big secret that I’m a naturally competitive person. It doesn’t matter the topic, the event, or the situation – if there is room to turn it into a contest of some sort, you can bet money that I’m the person pushing for it. While physical challenges are enjoyable, I’m normally…
Another year draws to a close and the rush to draft up a long list of resolutions that I plan to break almost immediately in the new year is now upon me. As I sit here looking back at the previous year, I wonder how much more I plan to resolve to change. I’ve already…
Well, since the Great Apocalypse of 2012 has not yet occurred, I guess it’s time to stop procrastinating and actually set out to accomplish the goals I set for this holiday break. AKA, time to do my laundry and wrap those last minute presents. Shucks. I must admit that I find the whole rigamaroo about…
Image Source: http://poeticfool.com/2013/01/16/easy-reading-is-damn-hard-writing-nathaniel-hawthorne/writing/ _____________________________________________ OK, as promised, I’m going to post the modern retelling of the Grimm’s fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, here for all to see. Big thanks to everyone for their feedback, support, and constructive criticism when I posted a segment of this story a little over a week ago. Please note…
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