Our Miniature Hobby Lifestyle
Ever wonder why you can’t seem to finish a project? Procrastination, it’s like a road block that holds you back. Whatever thorn is in your side, you can’t name it or pull it out. The bogeyman stalks all artists and miniature painters the same, and makes the work that much more scary. I’ve said it …
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“Everyone makes mistakes.” Isn’t this what you hear when something goes badly? The problem with mistakes is oftentimes they don’t go away. You can fix certain choices you made with more action. You have to live with the consequences of your error. In this post, I write about my thoughts regarding those mistakes you probably …
As an academic, I write a lot. I write tons and tons of material. And, I’ve explored all kinds of writing. Never mind the dissertation; I’ve written papers for scientific journals, editorials for magazines, and creative fiction for contests. I can write. I’ve got the tools in the toolbox, as Stephen King described in his …
Some days you just have to do something. Doing something, rather than thinking about it. I’m talking about the creative side of you. The writer, the painter, the sculptor, whatever it may be. What is an artist anyway? I write about painting miniatures when I don’t have the time or motivation to get some brush …
On the weekend, my family went to the mall. As families with young children do, we ended up taking a pitstop at the Lego Store. Whoever markets some of these […]
Did you know that 1 out of 4 people in the United States suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder (source)? 1 out of 5 adults have an anxiety disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH). Chances are you or someone you know has an anxiety disorder. Fear touches …
On a coffee break, partaking in two of my favorite activities: consuming and spewing. Here’s my afternoon spew…. This is a precious…sss moment. A punctate lot of time in this short lifespan. In the words of the wise fictional character, Bilbo Baggins (the most famous of Hobbit-sss), I’m preemptively avoiding being “…butter scraped over too …
I wrote this short story (circa 2003) as an exercise in writing conversational dialog. It was practice, written quickly to finish it. It’s a quick read, a bit clunky, but I haven’t pushed the editing too far so I could retain the draft as a reference for me to see how far I’ve come as …
This morning sitting on a chair at my desk with a cup of coffee and a typewriter, I feel reality knocking on the door and it’s rude. Immortality. I’ve been watching some documentaries, or kind of listening to them while doing some mundane work (e.g., painting a lot of the same miniatures over and over), …
Today is Monday. No words come to me. I’m a prolific writer in private, rarely posting the journal entries, but here I am stuck. But, this I know: walking and writing go hand-in-hand. Each step can be a word. On a stroll to the lab from the parking lot I pass through the front entrance of …
“Wheeeel, fix…” my 2-year old daughter said. “I can’t–” I’m holding the plastic tire in my hand, as she hands me the yellow toy truck (a bulldozer). On a bright sunny day, I was in the local playground with my 2-yr old daughter. We found a broken toy bull dozer. It lay on the dirt, …