And what you might just be able to gain or learn through doing so. — I’m the furthest thing from a salesman. To be perfectly honest — I don’t like sales folk. Not the pushy, follow you around the store kind, not even out of suspicion — but usually just based on the fact their middle manager makes them because they don’t know how to…

And how we may be able to save ourselves on this platform, via this method. — She certainly and obviously didn’t have to, I mean nobody else ever has. Yet I woke up yesterday morning to the pleasant surprise of a reader having tipped me $10 via PayPal for one of my more recent stories published here. I currently survive exclusively off the money I make…

We all need you back. — I know you’re in there. I know you hear me, and us. I also know you’re not you, at the moment. It’s like you recognize me, but don’t know me. Remember me, but not why. It’s like you don’t remember us, or what was. Perhaps you misremember or simply don’t…

It’s not only possible, it’s necessary. — Throughout our history as human beings, every great man and woman eventually found a way to do it. They did so, throughout every time period, in every fashion, and through practically every field, art, craft, and industry. Some found their way of mastering the skillset I speak of as art…

My only dog in this fight’s name is uncensored art and I’m here to ensure he’ll never be unjustly outlawed or criminalized, by anyone for any reason — including and especially The federal government. — I am not a fan of rapper Young Thug’s music, I couldn’t name songs of his couldn’t quote lyrics, and find him less than remarkable as a lyricist and artist. That’s just my honest opinion. I don’t willingly and purposely listen to his music, barring features he pops up in…

Today’s date used to haunt me, but now it’s simply a part of me. — Nineteen years ago to the day of the time I write this (4/4/23), I started dating my high school sweetheart, the one by the time we graduated together, we were certain we’d spend the rest of our lives together. …

As told by one who lives, sleeps, and breathes it daily. — A real writer’s true struggle isn’t their sales, salary, or latest subject. It isn’t in who reads what pieces, articles posts, or books they write and how they feel about it or what they thought of it on a creative level, nor if they’re “qualified” to even give such feedback…

I needed to write this to process and comprehend it myself. — I said book, but within a month's span, I self-published two writing collections, totaling around 94,000 words. Though they’re thankfully selling fairly well, and blowing the alleged average self-published author statistics out of the water thus far, I still don’t feel right categorizing them as books. Only because I feel…

Listen up (some) ladies, enough is enough. — I’m observant. I’ve seen the memes read the comments, slick talk, sideways statements, and so-called standards some of you have made and set — as is your right and freedom, don’t get me wrong here. But then in bio after bio in dating profiles, I wasted my time briefly browsing…