Category: writing
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Audiobook Giveaway
Tis the Season for a book giveaway The Children’s Book Review is sponsoring an audiobook giveaway of 10 free Audible books. And even if you don’t win, Tis the giving season. Give the gift of a spirit guide. Let Sprout bring more meaning to some one’s life. “Theo and Sprout” also available as affordable Kindle,…
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More Meanderings on the Collective Unconscious and Inner Work
Right below the surface of “Theo and Spout,” a seemingly simple gender-bending coming of age story, lies an exercise in Inner Work and the Shadow. While Theo is just Theo, Sprout is clearly or not so clearly many things. On the surface she is his spirit guide, there to help him through adolescence, give him…
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Self-Discovery and The Collective Unconscious
In “Theo and Sprout” Theo is on a journey of self-discovery. He has the good fortune of being guided on that journey by Sprout, his usually helpful inner self. They learn together to navigate adolescence. But why is Sprout a good guide? What does she bring to the table that is so helpful? Well, we…
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Terrible Writing Role Model
The other day I had a fleeting and horrible idea of offering feedback services to aspiring writers. The idea fled because it knew I wouldn’t work that hard. The horridity of the idea was not that I couldn’t give feedback (I actually have a decent grasp on what good feedback is and isn’t), but that…
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Without Doubt
I lack doubt. It might seem strange to just blurt this out but I don‘t inherently doubt. Once I started to think about that this lack of doubt it began to pop up everywhere. I tend to believe in the things I am hearing or seeing. Naïve trust perhaps. Now I’m not talking about blind…
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It’s the Balance, Silly Bear
One of the underlying themes in my book “Theo and Sprout” is about finding your feminine side, or embracing the archetypal traits of the Divine Feminine, in a Western world that focuses so much on the masculine, or on the archetypical traits of the Divine Masculine. This often gets referred to as toxic masculinity, which…
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I’m Not Writing, You’re Writing
I don’t know anything about writing. I’ve decided that’s okay. I’m perpetually astounded by how writers achieve the effects they do. Given what I’ve read and studied, I should understand at least a little. But alas, I don’t, or if I do it is quite superficial. I’m okay with that too. Maybe that’s what they…
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The Art Deco Hotel
My room should be dark but instead glows red,Bordello red when it should be graveyard black.The smoke detectors excessively bright running lightTells me it is working, working to keep me awake.The gilt trappings in The Art Deco hotel room,In the opulent Art Deco hotel(curiously built during the dark Depression)Bounce the red light about, assisting the…
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This is Garbage
That was the entirety of a review of “Theo and Sprout” on GoodReads. “This is garbage.” The good news is that someone I have never heard of read enough of my book to call it garbage. That’s a small exposure victory. Any publicity is good publicity. To be fair, I have read books that I…
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