It took me ten years to write Sailor Helga. I used to write Hey Arnold! fanfiction. By the time I retired in 2018, I had written over a dozen stories about that fictional kid with the football-shaped head. One story in particular took much longer to write than the others. It was a crazy crossover idea marrying my […]
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3 Lessons Disney Pixar’s SOUL Teaches About the Meaning of Life
Note: This post contains spoilers I watched the new Disney Pixar film Soul on Disney Plus and I was blown away. Pixar has done it again with another beautifully animated feature film just in time for Christmas. But Soul isn’t just a gorgeous-looking movie with an amazing jazz soundtrack. As is the norm, Soul is […]
In Writing, You Have to Make Your Own Luck
The other day I went for a lengthy walk around the city. It was not a route I usually traveled, and it took about 2 hours to complete. It wasn’t until the very end of my walk, when I made a stop at my local grocery store, that I realized that I had misplaced the […]
Writers: Learn Self-Care and How to Be Kind to Yourself
This is NOT a sponsored post. Last weekend, I experienced burnout, to the point where I felt I couldn’t write anymore. I had hit a wall. For the past month I had been writing 3 paid articles a week. In the beginning, I thought I could handle it, but by the end of last week, […]
Why You Shouldn’t Let Your Past Define You
So there’s been recent movement by fans of the show Hey Arnold! to petition a continuation of the series. For those that don’t know, I used to produce a podcast, The Vacant Lot Podcast, that was all about Hey Arnold!, a 90s Nicktoon about a boy with a football head living in the big city. […]