Reflecting
This video was created for my Full Sail University MFA in Creative Writing Portfolio 1 course. We were asked to reflect on our time in the course, our lives, our careers, and where we would like to go.
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Reflecting on Writing and Creating
The last month has been one of the strangest and most challenging that I can remember. This is not just a blog post about my journey, but I think of all people. Lives have been completely flipped upside down. In the last two weeks I have had to start working from home, running a department…
Using Creative Writing in your daily life.
This post is here to act as a reminder of ways of I can use my creative writing skills and education to improve things in my current field and job.
Stressful times and finding balance.
I recently returned to work after being home for eight weeks on paternity leave after my wife gave birth to our second child. Getting back into the swing of balancing, commuting, work, kids, household duties, hosting a podcast, developing another one, and school has been a real challenge. I developed a method and workflow that…
Character Analysis and Personalities
Enneagram Looking at the Enneagram model, I gravitated to “The Giver,” type two. When thinking about the internal journey Ben must take to realize his goals and spark out on adventure, I thought about what it would be like for someone who is the opposite. The Giver is someone who cares more for others than they do…
Character Creation and Development
So this week we started up again after the short winter break for the holidays. Honestly those two weeks felt a lot longer. I am both excited and nervous about this class. I am really looking forward to maintaining a high level of quality work, but I am nervous about time management. I’ve also just…
The Art of Visual Storytelling
So we are coming to end of the month and of another course in the MFA. The Art of Visual Storytelling with Professor Michael Merriam was really an eye opening course. I truly enjoyed it. It was challenging, fast paced, engaging, exciting, and funny. If this is what I have to look forward to I…
What do you MEME??
I created this meme for fun as I was sitting up late at night working on a couple of homework assignments. I thought it felt really fitting.
Visual Storytelling
We are in the second week of our Art of Visual Storytelling class. I have been working really hard on the assignments. It is a lot of fun, and I’ve had story ideas just pop into my head the moment I have to go and create something. It is really cool to be back in…
What Can We Become?
I saw this post recently and it really spoke to me. I connected to it in a personal way. I have always struggled to accept the things about me I need to change and wondering if this is as good as it gets. That started to change once I became a parent, and over the…