Welcome to Day Fifteen of my blog series on “accepting the world.” You can catch up on earlier posts at this series’ dedicated page here. As I trusted, my personal hero’s journey at the WMG SF craft workshop happened, and then some. It’s been everything I could have hoped, and more. Mostly because of self-knowledge and a clear idea of how to improve as a writer, in terms of my craft. There…

Welcome to day fourteen of my (now-no-longer) daily blog series on “accepting the world.” You can catch up on the rest of the series at its dedicated page here. Today is day four of the WMG Science Fiction Craft Workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada. When sharing my initial thoughts before I left, I suggested that this workshop would be a hero’s journey for me. Turns out I was very, very right about…

Welcome to day 11 of my “accepting the world” series. Catch up on the rest of the series on its dedicated page here. Last week, I was absolutely thrilled to receive a preliminary offer from a Russian publishing house concerning a possible translation of my novels. Naturally, I was through the roof. I had no idea that the experience would instead evoke memories of 19th century censorship. Ilyin’s Idea of Creative Freedom…

Welcome to day ten of my “accepting the world” series. If you have no idea what i’m talking about, or if you want to catch up on the rest of the series, you can do so on its dedicated page here. I admit, I had lofty goals for this series. I was inspired by Ross Gay’s experiment in seeing daily delights. But sometimes, “accepting the world” means accepting my own limitations. After…

Welcome to day 9 of my blog series on accepting the world. You can catch up on the rest of the series at its dedicated page here. Reading that headline, you might think I’ve finally crossed a line, gone a little crazy, taken this whole “accepting the world” idea too far! No, I’m just being a little cheeky. And admit it, it got your attention! Why Vegas? In my “Call for a…

Welcome to day eight of my blog series on “accepting the world.” To catch up on the rest of the series, visit the dedicated page for the series here. When I began this series, I was just coming out of a long-ongoing and difficult professional situation that had a personal component to it. To be honest, even if there hadn’t been a personal component to it, I would have felt it on…

Welcome to day 7 of my new blog series on “accepting the world.” You can catch up on the entire series on its dedicated page here. It occurred to me this morning that it might be useful and interesting for you to get a more detailed sense of what “accepting the world” really means, according to the writing of Ivan Ilyin. So I’ve decided to share an entire chapter of Foundations of Christian…

Welcome to Day Six of my new blog series on “accepting the world.” To catch up on previous posts, or if you’re new to the party and have no idea what I’m talking about, check out the dedicated the page for all this series’ posts. Congratulations to all who celebrate the Theophany on the Old Calendar today. I’m on my way to church, so today will be a quick post. Just wanted…

Welcome to Day Five of my new blog series on “accepting the world.” Catch up on the idea for the series and the first four posts on this dedicated page. In two weeks, Artefact Institute is presenting our first workshop/event in Louisville, KY. It’s our first event, but already there’s been a lot of interest, and we expect several hundred people in attendance at various points of the weekend. That interest has…

Welcome to Day Four of my new blog series on “accepting the world.” If you haven’t had a chance to read my previous posts, or if you’re confused about what “accepting the world” even means, click here to see all my posts up to this point.  Yesterday I had the “capital!” pleasure of seeing Greta Gerwig’s take on Little Women. (If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve already gotten the reference). This won’t be a…