Follow your bliss – find your “thing” to increase job satisfaction No matter what I’ve done in my grown-up work life, I’ve worked to find the parts of whatever it is that give back to me, that feed me while…
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Editorial and personal commentary by JD Stanley. No journalism in this category – just rants, raves, and me blathering-on. Okay, it’s mostly be blathering on, so if you’re into that, have at it.
Introverts is a psychological term for people who tend to: “shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts”. (Thanks WordWeb! Which, by the way, is a handy little free dictionary tool. If you don’t have it,…
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So I keep reading up on social media strategies… The kind geared toward writers, if you know what I mean. I keep thinking I’m going to run across some revelation I haven’t found yet. I know, I’m a big research…
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Like that title alliteration? It came to me in the shower. You know, that magical place from where all great ideas flow… like water… cough gag corny To be honest, I don’t have anything of brilliance to offer on the…
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Low vision is the frame of my reality. I’ve been working around its encroaching borders for long enough that I now often forget it’s a “thing”. Since I can’t change it, it’s incorporated into my workflow and I rarely talk…
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Book release – The Seer Publication date: Jan 27 2017 Just a warning to anyone who read Blood Runner, this book release? It’s very different from my first book. Not a vampire in sight. The Seer is a pure historical…
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You want my art for free? Art for free..? Um, no. Where did this perception come from that art is some kind of throw-away? I have to apologise in advance. Something set me off this week and I’ve been stewing…
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After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, on June 3, 2016, Muhammad Ali passed away at the age of 74. Outspoken about well… everything. And wonderfully so when so many others do not speak. Phenomenal athlete, civil rights champion, eloquent…
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Should new writers pay reading or submission fees just for a shot at having their work looked at by a professional publication? The simple answer – no. Submission fees create a barrier between the writer and the literary community, not…
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To Toque or Not to Toque: It’s Winter, It’s Freezing, Deal With It
I came in from freezing my arse off outside at the beginning of winter quite a while back now and wrote out my frustration. Y’know, the way writers handle all life’s little hurdles. I was full on freelancing at the…