Tag: artist
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Interview with Maria Rochelle
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in Adventure, Africa, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Author, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, Europe, featuring, Food, foodie, Guest Blog, history, Kansas City, memoir, Middle East, Morocco, networking, Travel, writingGet to know Nicholas over this discussion on travel, literature, writing, life, love and losing oneself in the beautiful madness of modern life.
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That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats
“A line will take us hours maybe, Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching have been naught. Better go down upon your marrow bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather— For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to…
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Top 5 Most Frustrating Writing Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) – from Grammarly
“Recently Grammarly asked its social media communities which writing mistakes were the worst kinds of errors.”
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Sketching Sights: Istanbul, City on the Edge (Art. Travel. Writing. Islam. Architecture)
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The Bosphorus splits Istanbul in two parts. A rift in the madness of Europe and Asia, drifting between bodies of fresh and salt water cooling the heated passion of a most ancient urban jungle. The hot, hot, heat of human movement generates organized chaos as this great strait, this rift, cushions the blow, keeping this…
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Spontaneous Combustion: #1 ($99 Dollars, Almost Free: Life Coach. Copywriter. Thief)
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in Adventure, Anthropology, Arabic, Archaeology, Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, copywriting, fundraising, life coach, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, love, memoir, networking, nonfiction, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, spiritual, spontaneous combustion, stream-of-consciousness, success, the writers life, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writingI’m not here to pretend to be some guru or act like I know anymore than you do because, believe me, the older I get, the less I know. Funny how that works when the world is running wild with “twenty-somethings” peddling Nirvana and life-coaching: really just give me $99 and I promise you’ll feel…
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Meet Nicholas: or, Hello There! | Crafting My Author Biography
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Novelist. Reader. Archaeologist. After high school I hit the road. A spontaneous bus ride to Mexico City led me into the hazy mountains, the deep emerald forests of Chiapas where I discovered the beautiful and heartbreaking world of the Maya (yes, they still exist) and found something deeply rooted, down in my heart of hearts:…