Enter the Between

by Express Monorail Can a bad memory be a good thing? "Yes," says Robert Olen Butler, professor of creative writing at Florida State University. When you're an artist. In From Where You Dream, he warns:  If you are a writer who aspires ...

Have you ever dreamed of publishing one of your short stories and seeing how it compares to others out there?  If so, here's your chance. At Storystar, you can share your short stories with the world. No, you won't get pa...

Here's the book trailer that will be on my new website, which I will debut soon. Since I'm not published yet, I've taken my brand statement and put it to music. What do you think? Thanks for stopping by. RSS 2.0: http://enterthebetw...

April is National Poetry Month, and April 26 is Poem In Your Pocket Day. The idea is to carry a copy of your favorite poem in your pocket to share with others in a sort of awareness, appreciation, promotion exercise. There are two books avail...

Have you ever heard of Consciousness-Enhancing Media or inner-tainment? It involves using music and media as a kind of medicine. Award-winning media composer/producer Gary Malkin's inspiring short films at Wisdom Films are an example. &nb...

"Music of the Spheres" "Musica Universalis," or Music of the Spheres.  What a wonderful ancient philosophical concept. Pythagoras theorized that the Sun, Moon, and planets produce their own unique hums as they move through the universe, ...

I'm in the final manuscript makeover mode, which means my blog has been relegated to second status for awhile. Makeovers and blogs are hungry beasts and quite jealous and suspicious of each other. When they don't get enough...

Eckhart Tolle says, "Being is finding within yourself that space of stillness that is always there, where you can be conscious without thinking." I love it when I find myself in this "space of stillness," this "point of dynamic rest," but it...

"By taking the lid off the unconscious, we can be guided by its knowledge," says Bernie Siegel, in an article titled Making the Invisible Visible--How dreams and drawings reveal the unknown and invisible.  Siegel, a self-described Jungian ...

I'm sure you've heard before that an author platform is mandatory to your publishing career. You've also heard that in building a platform you need to blog, social network, and use video sites. In other words, you have to do your own marketing an...