WordPress Anniversary – One Year Later!
This is wild. It’s my one year anniversary on WordPress and it’s been an amazing year of change and growth. I wanted to take a moment to say, “Thank You!” to everyone who follows and reads Stories are...
View ArticleRainy Days and Mondays
©2015 Paul Jenny I’m a big fan of petrichor, that smell of rain after a period of dry weather. I also like Mondays. They are the beginning of a week filled with so many possibilities. So, rainy Mondays...
View ArticleWhat is your Field of Dreams Job? (Build it and they will come…)
In the 1989 fantasy movie Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, an Iowa corn farmer hears voices that tell him to build a baseball diamond in his fields. He does and the Chicago Black Sox show up!...
View ArticleMacaronic – Wildest Word of the Day
Image by TheBrassGlass on Morguefile.com When Yankee Doodle went to London riding on his pony, he stuck a feather in his cap and called it – macaroni! As a kid I always pictured Yankee Doodle as an...
View ArticleThe Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen
Well, maybe not the worst thing. There are a LOT of terrible things happening in the world right now. The stock market is fluctuating like crazy, monster storms are flooding cities, people are...
View ArticleDisaster Averted
Success! If you follow the blog, you know that I recently went through a terrible computer crash and lost some writing that was really important to me. I tried everything I could to bring my computer...
View ArticleJust a Quick Update
Hello, Dedicated Readers of Stories are the Wildest Things. I’m back. I’ve missed you. I’m here and working hard to bring you the content you expect from this blog. I’ve been busy putting together two...
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut – Writing Quote Wednesday
I took this Writing Quote Wednesday from Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007). I was part of his lost NYU lecture on what it takes to be a writer that was recently posted on Brain...
View ArticleSix Lessons my Five-Year-Old Can Teach You About Selling Books
It was a cold, rainy day and I was at the college where my wife works to meet with an acting student who needed to record an audition for a film role. Although college was in session, the elementary...
View ArticleHow To Write & Publish a #1 Bestselling Children’s Book to Amazon in a...
The title of this post was the promise made by a recent free webinar I did recently. One of the people responsible for the “Chicken Soup for the (fill in profitable niche group here) Soul” publishers...
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