Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- "There is no comparison between  that which is lost by not succeeding  and that lost by not trying." ~ Sir Francis Bacon -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio --   Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144     Jeff Rasley - author of several books (including Monsters of the Doorway, Light in the Mountains, a thriller titled False Prophet, Islands in My Dreams, and Bringing Progress to Paradise ) about combining adventure travel with philanthropy. Jeff practiced law in the Indianapolis (US) region for 30 years and is currently the partner of Knowledge Capture Publishing and Editing as well as the president of the Basa Village Foundation. Amazingly he is also able to act as a liaison for Adventure Geo-Treks LTD, while teaching students. Join us live (10-11 AM Pacific) and drop in the chat room - or ...

 -- From Writing to Film -- We are pleased to present to you an essay written by Jacquitta McManus, sharing her journey into the world of writing, while balancing a film project.  Jacquitta's recent children's fantasy-adventure novel is now available via her site: http://www.worldstodiscover.com -- As a little girl from KY I didn’t have a lot of outlets that allowed me to explore  what drew me to those stories.  All I knew was that they were exciting adventures and I loved the experience of the imagination. As I got older and it was time to  make a decision about what to do as a career I realized that the only thing that  interested me was animation. So I headed off to college for a digital animation  degree. I loved computers so it seemed like the obvious choice. So, I was in college taking my courses… taking art classes, taking animation  classes and of course the basics. P.S. I was one of the students who hated taking  the b...

-- Quote of the Day -- "The Greatest Gift You'll Ever Learn...Is Just To Love And Be Loved In Return" ~ From the movie Moulin Rouge -- Authors Read -- Jan 9th on Authors Read we featured Chris Ringler - a writer for twenty years; he tends to specialize in short story writing, generally dark fiction with a few children’s stories as well. Chris is currently based in Michigan (USA) and has 2 short story collection books so far, the first being Back from Nothing . He has just released the second book of short stories titled This Beautiful Darkness , which is a compilation of 13 dark short stories that lay on the borderlands between dark fiction and horror. He is currently working on a children's series and a novel while balancing work with several magazine publications. Along with writing, Chris is a painter and photographer. Drop by to hear the archived episode of Chris reading from Like Cracks in Still Water - click on the hyperlink here or look to the right for rece...