Jay VanLandingham

AUTHOR – Stories on identity, grief, and the lifelong process of becoming.

Tag: writing process

  • Finding Love in a Time of Change:

    A New Novella About Love, Identity and Transformation It’s February. Let’s talk about love. Not the kind of love we might experience with another person, but the kind of love we can only find within ourselves. Welcome to a discussion on my latest novella, “Finding Love in a Time of Change”. I’m going to give…

  • Signs, Guides & Truth-Telling

    I recently finished the first round of edits on Sentient Being. I scanned the entire document and “approved” or “rejected” my editor’s changes. It took about 20 hours, not as long as I thought it would. Now on to step two: addressing the comments my editor made within the document, and fixing as I go……

  • Sentient Origins: Part One

    Ten years ago, an idea came to me. Ideas are a funny thing. I don’t believe they are something we create. Ideas come from a place of nothing. From nowhere, and most often when we are doing something else. Such as driving, which was what I was doing when the idea for Sentient came into…