There was a period in my life that I was inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau And although I know I risk being criticized for unoriginality, I would like to once again look back at some of the words Thoreau used that especially inspired me. Those words and my own ending comment (after my own Walden experience) follow: (more…)
Although I have some fairly notable accomplishments from my business life to look back upon and for which I can be proud. I know that nothing in my previous business life comes close to that which I accomplished in the writing of my first novel, The Sower’s Seeds.
Even so, about a year after the novel was published I became discouraged when the great American novel of my dreams did not receive the national and international acclaim that I thought it deserved. (more…)
My brother is a very successful business person, and one day while I was right smack in the middle of writing The Sower’s Seeds, my first novel, he said that he did not understand why anyone would waste his or her time writing anything, let alone something as meaningless as a novel of fiction.
Although the intent of my brother’s remark was not meant to offend—he was actually concerned about my well being—I would be lying if I said his words did not raise serious doubts about what I was doing with my writing endeavor.
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