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The Life of a Writer – with Charlie Sheldon
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Charlie Sheldon who has a broad and colourful life history and has begun collecting, creating and telling his stories. In this episode he puts us into the mindset of the writer, spent both in self-doubt and artistic freedom.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Storytelling isn’t a choice, it’s something you’re driven to do’
‘Most artistic people know what’s there, whether it’s a story or a song, it’s the getting it out that’s the hard part. 90% of writing is editing’
‘You want the reader to be engaged in the story, each character has to have their own challenge and arc as to how they overcome it’
‘It’s always about the reader, they either fall into it or not and either way that’s great’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
Every great scientific discovery began as a heretical, outrageous idea dismissed and condemned by all. Those ideas that today are considered foolish, even dangerous, may turn out to be true, given evidence, often much evidence, to counter the huge power of the status quo.
Charlie Sheldon writes fiction about these issues, often with a touch of magic realism, even a breath of fantasy, for only in those realms can the reader accept and truly imagine what today might be considered impossible. He has always been a writer, always a hiker, trained as a wildlife biologist, living in the Pacific Northwest, a husband, father, grandfather, and friend.
In work life, Charlie was a graduate student teacher, a commercial fisherman, a house painter, a fisheries consultant, a treasure hunter, then a planner, a construction manager, a project manager, even an executive for various seaports - for 28 years. After he retired from port work at age 65, Charlie went back to sea as a merchant sailor for four years before leaving to write his latest book series.
The Strong Heart Series is about Olympic National Park, the Gulf of Alaska, a certain ornery young girl, and ancient history. These stories ask the question: could the ancient legends of most First peoples of North America that they have always been here - always - be true? Along the way he has learned much about what we know, and how much more we do not know, plus a healthy dose of aversion to zealotry and people who are absolutely convinced they know what is best for the rest of us.
https://charliesheldon2.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylor.roark1/
Clubhouse: @thetaylorroark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
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By Taylor RoarkThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Charlie Sheldon who has a broad and colourful life history and has begun collecting, creating and telling his stories. In this episode he puts us into the mindset of the writer, spent both in self-doubt and artistic freedom.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Storytelling isn’t a choice, it’s something you’re driven to do’
‘Most artistic people know what’s there, whether it’s a story or a song, it’s the getting it out that’s the hard part. 90% of writing is editing’
‘You want the reader to be engaged in the story, each character has to have their own challenge and arc as to how they overcome it’
‘It’s always about the reader, they either fall into it or not and either way that’s great’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
Every great scientific discovery began as a heretical, outrageous idea dismissed and condemned by all. Those ideas that today are considered foolish, even dangerous, may turn out to be true, given evidence, often much evidence, to counter the huge power of the status quo.
Charlie Sheldon writes fiction about these issues, often with a touch of magic realism, even a breath of fantasy, for only in those realms can the reader accept and truly imagine what today might be considered impossible. He has always been a writer, always a hiker, trained as a wildlife biologist, living in the Pacific Northwest, a husband, father, grandfather, and friend.
In work life, Charlie was a graduate student teacher, a commercial fisherman, a house painter, a fisheries consultant, a treasure hunter, then a planner, a construction manager, a project manager, even an executive for various seaports - for 28 years. After he retired from port work at age 65, Charlie went back to sea as a merchant sailor for four years before leaving to write his latest book series.
The Strong Heart Series is about Olympic National Park, the Gulf of Alaska, a certain ornery young girl, and ancient history. These stories ask the question: could the ancient legends of most First peoples of North America that they have always been here - always - be true? Along the way he has learned much about what we know, and how much more we do not know, plus a healthy dose of aversion to zealotry and people who are absolutely convinced they know what is best for the rest of us.
https://charliesheldon2.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylor.roark1/
Clubhouse: @thetaylorroark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media