Both Steven Pressfield and Elizabeth Gilbert speak of daemons in their works The War of Art and Big Magic, daemons being the benevolent outside forces that guide our thoughts and hands to create art and stories and music... Our muses, if you will, but in a very personal sense. It is called flow or being in the zone in modern speak, but these two descriptors fall, in...
Alessa’s Adversaria
Adversaria: (pl) (n) a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or observations.
Art
A Rolling Stone…
Steven Pressfield discusses in his book, The War of Art*, the impact of our own inner Resistance on our desires to accomplish our dreams. Resistance with a capital R, because there's nothing stronger to stop us from accomplishing our dreams than our own inner voice, an inner voice that does everything in its power to hold us back, chiefly out of fear. But... "Fear...
Behind The Scenes – Mighty Pax’s Misadventures: A Christmas Tail
Over two years ago, an idea popped into my head: To write and illustrate a children’s book inspired by my dog Pax. I temporarily dropped the idea (being in the midst of my fourth rewrite of a trilogy…which I am now starting from scratch. Again.), until Pax lost the use of his hind legs. The pain and trials he went through, before and after surgery, made my heart...