Let me explain myself

What can I tell you?

I’m not a trendy guy.

Modern websites minimize text, keeping it as short as possible. My sites, by contrast, have lots of text.

I wrote two short books, Tribal Trouble and Primal Play for Writers. But the others are long. That’s because what I’m writing about is complex and emotionally challenging and…

There just aren’t ten easy steps for upgrading love.

Or for dealing with the death of hope.

To make reading easier for you, I do what I call visual writing. This doesn’t mean much except that…

I use lots of indents.

And…

I bold most of those indents.

I do this to emphasize key points and to make it easy to skim what you’re reading. Which I’m told lots of people like to do when reading online, and which I’ve noticed I sometimes like to do, too.

I balk at big blocks of solid text, most people do. So I break up what would ordinarily be long paragraphs into smaller bits and bites.

The exception is my first book, Love with Fight in its Heart. This is the only one I published hard copy and on Kindle. So on the website I’ve kept the text true to the print version. Except I’ve put a space between paragraphs to let them breathe.

Apart from Love with Fight, though, I’ve split the chapters of my books into smaller sections, and given each its own link.

This means if you think a friend might like a specific section on a particular topic, like “Disarming Shame“ or “Breaking Up with your Inner Critic,”

You can send them the direct link to just that one section.

They won’t have to work their way through a whole chapter to find the part you want them to see.

You might notice that on all my sites…

The banners look homemade.

That’s because they are.

I could spend a bunch of money to have a top-notch web designer give my sites a cool and sophisticated style.

But I choose not to because…

I like homemade.

It’s  match for who I am as a person. And a match for my writing which has…

A down-to-earth vulnerability to it.

I want to say thank you to Canva for most of the flower graphics I’ve used to decorate my sites.

And thanks to Shutterstock for the line drawings on this site. 

A special thank you to the following Pixabay artists for the flower wreaths: Luciana Silva, Victoria_Watercolor, and Jana Necasova.

Personally I prefer reading print books instead of reading online. But I’ve put up my books for free because…

I want them to be accessible.

There are people living on the edge financially who I think might find what I’ve written useful and I don’t want them to be left out just because of money.

Also, a big advantage to publishing on the internet, is that whenever I think of a better way to say something, I can jump into the site and in two minutes upgrade a section with a new phrase or paragraph.

By the way, if you have a book of your own you want to put up on the internet for free, and you want tips on how to do that, let me know.

Since the kind of navigation menus I use in the sidebar are no longer in style like they used to be, it was hard to find instruction on how to set those up. And some of the young consultants I worked with didn’t know how to do it. Which made me feel old and out of it.

Anyway, if you’re struggling to put up a book-site, contact me…

I’d be glad to make your life easier if I can.

PS:  I use the Ocean theme with the Elementor page builder.