Sid Sudiacal ~ The Joy of Writing
There are times in one's life when seemingly discombobulated moments, strewn about within the mind, suddenly coalesce in one moment of clarity. It is that eureka moment that we all long for and wish would happen to us as individuals. It happens so briefly in that...
Jonathan Holbrook ~ STILL
I’m blown away by the growing number of self-funded, independent web filmmakers. I met Jonathan Holbrook, creator of STILL: The Web Series shorty after I published my interview with Anthony Blaine about 4 Hire. Like Anthony, Jonathan is funding and producing the...
Danica Worthy ~ An Empowering Artist
I AM An Empowering Artist. I wrote to breathe at an early age; I took comfort in the beauty of writing. Words on paper were a means of transportation. I could be whomever and whatever I wanted to be, as I allowed my imagination to soar. In my youth, I was a quiet...
George Siosi Samuels ~ Anipreneur
I met George Siosi Samuels through our mutual friend JC Little, another Amused Now Featured Artist. Like JC, George is passionate about animation. His Anipreneur website teaches animators to “apply what they know to their bank accounts.” George founded Anipreneur to...
Nicole Roder ~ I Need to Write
A couple nights ago, a friend asked me if I'd always known I wanted to be a writer. Well, I haven't always wanted to. I mean, I've always written things. There was college, then graduate school, both with their requisite exercises in premature grandiose...
Andrew Harding ~ A New Breed
The story in my trilogy had turned out to be strange, fascinating and shocking; born from an incident that happened to me a decade before. I knew then that writing fantasy was for me. My sister’s comment, saying my next books should have more guts to them; meaning...
TheBeatStillJK ~ Outside the Box
I met Jonathan Kelley (JK) aka TheBeatStilJK when he reached out to me on Twitter. The better I got to know him, the more I fell in love with his dedication and talent. Last year, JK won the All Star Music Awards in Brooklyn for Producer of the Year. This year, he’s...
Ksenia Anske ~ Write for Therapy
I never thought that one day I'd be writing books. My friends pushed me into writing, literally. And even when I started, I was so afraid that nobody would care for any of my stories that I almost quit altogether several times. If you are in the same place, please,...
REBELMANN ~ Teen Rock Sensation
REBELMANN called in when I was a guest on the Nikki Rich Show on Blog Talk Radio. I so was impressed by their enthusiasm and desire to improve that I kept in touch when them and asked them to be featured artists. REBELMANN is literally a band of brothers. 13-year-old...
Anthony Blaine ~ 4Hire
I met Anthony Blaine from Parallel Worlds Productions on Twitter, when tweets about his upcoming web series 4Hire caught my eye. The series is about 4 childhood friends who grew up together and became vigilante hit men who “right the wrongs where justice falls short.”...
Francene Stanley ~ Expression through Stories
First things first. What is art? The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture. Works produced by skill and imagination. What does it mean to me? I'm a mature writer with a passion to...
Tara Dublin Rocks
The social media world is a wild and crazy place. I wrote a blog post about Matthew Modine and met Tara Dublin, actress and radio personality, here in my home town of Portland, Oregon. Tara stars in the hit web series The ScreenPrinters, available on YouTube and Funny...