Synful Interludes

Hello Awesome Visitors! Let's talk for a minute. Disclaimer:  Before we go on, I want to let you know on these topics, I'm no expert. I am just speaking on my own experiences or those by others. One of the things I do in my past time is to read.  Before I check out something to read, I always like to take a good look at the reviews posted on a particular work.  One of my fellow authors told me to check out the reviews done on this work called " Phantasy ."  When I asked why, she was like, "Because I've never seen anything like it." That she was definitely right on.  There was an equal ratio of five stars than there were one stars, which is kind of rare when you think about it.  Usually there are quite a few people in the 4 to 5 star range and a handful of 1 stars.  Or a lot of 1 stars and only a handful of 4 to 5 stars. So I checked out the reviews and there was a particular line pointed out in this work that got me to thinkin

Andrea (Andi) Houtsch, Wordsmith Facebook Author Page Website Welcome Awesome Readers! In this edition of Sunday Speak, we're in for a special treat.  This year, I am part of the 2nd Annual All Authors Blog Blitz, and I am proud to host Andrea Houtsch.  In this interview, she gave me permission to delve deeply into her inner workings. 1.  Describe your journey as a writer. My “journey” began at the young age of nine. The entire fourth grade class of my elementary school at the time (there were a few elementary schools in my childhood) was given the opportunity to write a story and have it printed and bound. I had never tried to write before but applying my young brain to storytelling and, more specifically, to words awakened something in me that quickly became a life long passion. Seeing the fledgling story printed and bound (a story about orphaned kids living in the prehistoric days pasted between two covers sporting floating astronauts – clearly I wasn&

Hello Awesome Visitors! For my upcoming Sunday Speak, I will be showcasing a person on behalf of All Authors Blog Blitz.  I hope you enjoy this exclusive interview I did with the wordsmith, Andrea Houtsch. Also check out the website of Adonis Mann.  He will be featuring me on his blog as part of the All Authors Blog Blitz event this Sunday June 15th. Adonis Mann See you there! Until next time, Desire

Hello Awesome Visitors! Let's talk for a minute. Disclaimer:  Before we go on, I want to let you know on these topics, I'm no expert. I am just speaking on my own experiences or those by others. For the past two weeks , I've been sitting back and reflecting.  I haven't been online that much but it's amazing how many (or how few) people actually noticed.  I thought the whole purpose of social media were to make connections that weren't normally possible by any other means. Yet it appears (at least to me) the more accessibility people have to each other, the less that this medium is being used efficiently . People seem to have forgotten how to conduct conversations .  More often than not, you see messages that are passed along and shared.  Yet there are times when I wonder if people actually read anything before they share it.  In addition, you also see a lot of marketing in the form of inviting people to like pages or advertising one's

Hello Awesome Visitors!  How has everyone been?  There has been some time since we've had Sunday Speak. While writing Convoluted Prism, for a while I was on a roll.  There would be times where I could crank out up to four chapters in a setting.  All was going well until two things happened: (1) I began getting to the more difficult part of the story and (2) There were some more short story ideas that were dying to come out. Number one frustrated me because it was a part of my life that I thought I had fully gotten past.  Convoluted Prism is partially autobiographical and this section that I've approached is crucial to the tide of the remainder of the story.  Yet each time I got around to composing it, the cursor would blink at me.  I would start typing, read it, and then erase it.  I even tried to walk away from it and then come back.  Yet I was just frozen. Number two, I wanted to tell myself that the short story ideas would still be there.  I just wanted to get Conv