THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

A Non-Expert’s Guide To Writing

Three important lessons for people who are inspiring writers and have never done this before: A fourth lesson would be to stop focusing on all of those and just get to writing something. Anything. Please. Recovered from the Internet Archive.

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Get Lost

“…to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious…

EpigraphOutdoors + Travel

iA Writer

After several free trials, beta tests and tribulations I have chosen iA Writer as my tool to help me create stories I want to tell (not calling myself a writer or author yet). The software for me had to pass…

TechnologyWriting

Stay Or Go?

When I noticed recently that the total number of photos stored on my computer is almost 40,000, it seemed time to do some organizing and pruning. No problem right? Just get rid of the images I don’t want and look…

Photography

Why Photography?

Ever since I snapped my first digital photograph I was hooked. Sure, it is fun and there is almost instant gratification but what else? Why else does someone pick up a camera and invest a lot of time, money and…

Photography

2001-2013

That is the amount of photos discovered in the archives I am sorted and am backing up. This is most of it so far but I just discovered others from other hard drives. To say nothing about the images from…

Photography

Progress

Time to get serious and disciplined regarding digital asset management (DAM). As I type, I am transferring files off of the various external hard drives to a master file on my computer. Then I will use Lightroom to remove the…

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Photo Archeology

My very first digital photograph back in November 2001. When I was away at college I borrowed my father’s Olympus C2100. I loved the zoom and bokeh it produced. This had helped solidify my photography enthusiasm. I discovered this when…

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8/8 GHR Check-In

Time to evaluate my progress for my Groundhog Resolutions, the 10th annual attempt at creating life-long habits for myself. I’ve discovered that right after the end of the year holidays I am not mentally or physically capable of sticking with…

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The (Mis) Adventurous Life

I grew up watching great action movies like Star Wars, Die Hard and Indiana Jones. Adventure stories have stood the test of time, why is that? Because they are us. We identify with these stories because life is adventurous. Or…

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“The simplest answer is to act”

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Fortune Cookie Wisdom #9

“The simplest answer is to act”

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The Experience

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The Experience

Website | VSCO | Smugmug | EyeEm | Flickr | YouTube

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Evereman

Free art community founder has inspired many similar creations in different cities. Houston has a big scene but not Tulsa…yet.

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