Friday, February 21, 2014

Welcome!

Welcome to a new adventure!  Through this blog I hope to entertain anyone and everyone with a sortie of written works that bring you on adventures through history, health, and wellness.

You'll find short stories, reflections on prolific historical figures as they echo major nuances in our history of humanity, and ideas about strength training.  Ultimately, I hope to use this blog as a portfolio of sorts for professional writing and a means for potential clients to see what I'm made of.


I'd like to end off this post with a very dear quote by the famous author, Steven Pressfield, as it echoes my intention with this blog quaintly:

"Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don't do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself,. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”   

Hopefully this blog also inspires whatever following it gets to live by this mantra to become the literary beasts that every writer aspires to become.