Category: life

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – The Seed and The Way

  In my conversation about wanting to write in the 3rd person I’ve mentioned a plot theme (I’m sure there are more technical terms for this but I have no idea what they are). So to keep on talking about the journey and not sound all vague and elusive about the plot theme, I should at…

  joegergen

  January 28, 2023

  art, life, writing

  3rd person, art, book, journey, narration, novel, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Beginning

  So, writing in the 3rd person. How hard can this be? I can handle this. I have a plot or at least the seed of a plot. Or maybe it’s just a theme. I’m not sure. But let’s not get too technical. Let’s just call it an idea. So I have an idea. I mean,…

  joegergen

  January 21, 2023

  life, writing

  3rd person, book, narration, theme, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person

  Joe decided to write a book in the 3rd person. I think that sentence is the first sentence I have ever publicly written in the 3rd person. I had to think about it quite a bit before I was able to get myself to type it out. Why is this important (if to no one…

  joegergen

  January 16, 2023

  art, life, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, author, book, diary, journey, narrative, novel, third person, writing

• Fire: The Element

  Fire is in the house. Five Elements Project. In time to celebrate the solstice. Stay warm my friends.

  joegergen

  December 19, 2022

  art, life

  5 elements, alchemy, art, cold, fire, five elements, spirit, winter solstice

• Road trip with Theo and Sprout

  Time for holiday road trips. Take Theo and Sprout with you. You’ll be glad you did. Here are some links to explore audiobook availability. -First is a link to Youtube where you can listen to first chapter, for free of course -Audiobook on Amazon/Audible -On Barnes and Noble -On Chirp Audiobooks On Rakuten Kobo -On Scribd -On Storytel On GooglePlay

  joegergen

  December 16, 2022

  life, writing

  audible, audiobook, book, coming of age, holiday travel, novel, roadtrip, Theo and sprout, writing

• Five Elements Project: Air!

  joegergen

  December 12, 2022

  art, life

  3d art, 5 elements, abstract art, air, alchemy, earth, ether, five elements, love, sculpture, spirit, water

• The Seven Faints

  “I started making a list of all the times I almost died” said one of the folks at a dinner outing the other day. Something had sparked a memory of a childhood accident that had nearly killed him and he had started to ponder all the near misses with death in his life and had…

  joegergen

  December 11, 2022

  art, life

  childhood, coping, delicate, faint, independent, influence, life, memory, personality, sensitive

• Five Elements Project: Water

  Water says Flow with it.

  joegergen

  December 6, 2022

  art, life

  3dart, 5 elements, alchemy, art, five elements, flow, growth, mannequin art, scuplture, spiritual, water

• Letting Go, or My Flight from Societal Cannibalism

  I was parking at the local coffee shop this morning and was faced again for the millionth time with my spatial dyslexia, the not quite utter inability of my brain to understand my place in space. I’m certainly not the only one who lives the struggles of left/right, up/down, near/far, east/west. The constant challenge with…

  joegergen

  November 26, 2022

  art, life, writing

  cannibalism, community, competition, growth, inadequacy, society, weakness, writing

• To Grow or Not to Grow

  Wherein I profess a terribly simplistic view of growth. Either you are growing or you are decaying. It’s a terrible dichotomy you can’t really escape. From a thermodynamics point of view, either energy is coming into the system or it is leaving. I suppose there can be the appearance of stasis but in humans I…

  joegergen

  November 13, 2022

  life

  complexity, flowers, growth, human, personal development, personal growth, thermodynamics, world