Growing a business in the age of social media. Part 1.

Here is the scenario:

You’re a writer. A good one, maybe even dare you to think a great one. You have a ton of ideas, poems been writing for years, maybe a story or two. All this time hiding your craft in a box under the bed. But now you’re ready to come out of your shell. You see so many people on Medium, with blogs, using Instagram, and think to yourself: I’m going to do this too.

So where do I/ you start?

It’s a chaotic ecosystem, the WWW. Growing up having a computer my whole life- it’s…

just to start writing

Rejection after rejection. We’ve all been there. Everyone has a story, but sometimes the words fall short…….. of other people's expectations.

Remember the phrase,

Opinions are like assholes everyone’s got one.

And that, my friends, is how the publishing world works.

I was fortunate. I got to work on big writing projects for two production companies, ScorpioSix Media and Glass Entertainment Group. With them, I got to travel the world; I did scriptwriting, TV production. I produce, wrote, and directed a multitude of sizzle reels. …

This poem can be read forward and backward. It’s about a father and son reuniting after decades. Son forward- father in reverse.

A true story about meeting my father after almost twenty years of no communication.

“Son”

Then, there was a pause.
I was confused.
I stood there waiting for an answer.
Something to grasp in the dark.
But here we were.
At the end of maybe the beginning.
I needed to be careful with my heart.
I needed to eat.
This I knew.
But I was hungry. I was fucking starving.
I don’t know if that is ever going to change.
I wanted this chance. More than anything-
what would it be…

10 Green Flags to follow on your path to love.

Let’s go Skydiving

Let me paint a picture for you. Close your eyes and pretend you were on this awesome date. You met someone that hit all the notes. Attractive, successful, no abandonment issues, doesn’t have an OnlyFans. A catch. Now you go out on this amazing date. And they say they have a surprise for you, something super exciting on the weekend. They say they set up a date to go skydiving! Wow, how exciting. The rush of jumping out of a plane flying through the sky, it’s something you always wanted…

Next time start with the cats. I enjoy a nice love story now and again. But cats are forever.

And It is in fact a fantastic term.

How to not ruin your life by “just” living from a Combat Veteran.

How far would we go to save everything we love?

It would be lazy of me to start this with a definition of “Complacency,” Like many of the articles on Medium, I would be almost contractually obligated to do so- except there is no contract, yet we all do it. Instead, I’m not going to start this with a definition of complacency and instead start with a Contentment description.

And that is no short task. Describing what being content means. Contentment to each of us could mean a variety of things. We could be content with our…

How to live- the day before you die.

It’s funny how time changes things. For so many years I tried to forget things, thinking that if I only forgot- I could move on. And now all I’m trying to do is remember. I wish someone told me back then that you can’t unsee things, you can’t unhear things and most importantly you can’t unfeel things.

I remember walking and in the distance, the sun created this haze I couldn’t get through. I heard the rocks beneath my feet, I felt the last bit of sweat trickle down my face. My…