What a Year It’s Been: http://ow.ly/sKO8f #travel #writing #essays #photography #Italy #France #Tuscany #faith #inspiration

What a Year It's Been http://wp.me/p1XfHW-vS #travel #writing #photography #Italy #France #Riviera #Nice #Tuscany #webdesign #strategy

We're putting the finishing touches on a new #author website for a U.S. #writer. We'd love to do the same for you: http://CreativeThunder.co

Burgos² ON SALE NOW! Visit http://Burgos2.com. You can preview the dust cover plus the first 15 pages of Burgos², or buy the book! And we'd greatly appreciate your help in spreading word of our new book of acclaimed photographs of this fine Spanish city.

Thank you!

Our new photography book, Burgos², is going on sale later TODAY — in time for Christmas orders! Visit http://Burgos2.com to read all about it!

http://Burgos2.com “Absolutely brilliant!! It’s a fantastic book! A very complete view on the city, it’s people and landscapes.” ~Héctor Jiménez, Diario de Burgos

Mufidah's and my brand-new book of the very best of our 1,400+ Burgos, Spain Instagram photos. Visit http://Burgos2.com/ for more information. #Christmas #gift

Every writer and author needs a platform from which to promote their work ...

How can we help you?

http://CreativeThunder.co/ 1) content strategy 2) professional web design 3) customized e-newsletter solutions 4) social media strategy

Like to talk? Drop us a line at fire@creativethunder.co

Every writer and author needs a platform from which to promote their work. We've just been engaged by a well-known U.S. author to design his website.

Would you like us to develop a professional, customized book/author website for you? We also offer customized e-newsletter solutions to promote your brand, and social media training and mentoring.

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With warm regards,

Sean (Write me here: fire@creativethunder.co)

Hello Goodreads Friend-Folk,

I finally got myself set up on LinkedIn two weeks ago, and would love to connect with you there as well: http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmmadden/

You can learn a lot more about my present and past goings-on via my profile there as well. If there's something you'd like to talk about, drop me a line.

With warm regards,

Sean (http://CreativeThunder.co)

You're also welcome to connect with me via the following social media platforms:

1) https://plus.google.com/+SeanMMadden
2) https://twitter.com/SeanMMadden
3) https://www.facebook.com/MindfulLivin...
4) https://twitter.com/Hexagram51
5) http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmmadden

Would you like to connect via LinkedIn as well?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmmadden

Reflections upon Seasons Past and Present http://wp.me/p1XfHW-dK #travel #writing #photography

"Weaving Words with Life" by @Mufidah via Creative Thunder: http://ow.ly/nWXaF ‪#‎writing‬ ‪#‎blogging‬ ‪#‎creativity‬ ‪#‎inspiration‬ ‪#‎unblocking‬

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Gratitude & Serendipity on the Road: http://wp.me/p1XfHW-7X #travel #writing #photography #faith #simplicity #essay

My latest @Instagram ‪#‎photos‬ are bringing in lots of likes, comments and new followers. Have a look http://ow.ly/nBWQC ‪#‎Cornwall‬ ‪#‎travel‬

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fire up your online presence & prowess with Creative Thunder http://ow.ly/nymWT #pressrelease #launch

From my notebook: "Have faith in Allah, but tether your camel" http://ow.ly/nuA1V #travel #writing #trust #amwriting

I've just updated the ‪#‎Travel‬ page of my website. Have a look here: http://ow.ly/nuyme ‪#‎slow‬ ‪#‎nomadic‬ #travel ‪#‎housesitting‬ ‪#‎petsitting‬

Thomas Jefferson on how to take a #walk http://wp.me/p1XfHW-9T

#Journalism, in any meaningful form, doesn’t exist: http://wp.me/p1XfHW-8Z #longform #essays #propaganda #mediacriticism

Fire up your online presence and prowess with our FREE Creative Thunder Manifesto: http://wp.me/P1Xkzc-g #creative #inspiration #knowhow

On Being @Freshly_Pressed; and, A Preamble of Sorts http://wp.me/p1XfHW-8Z #essays #longform #wplongform #longreads

I recently hinted at some exciting news (http://ow.ly/mwgzk ). That news was being @Freshly_Pressed by the WordPress.com editors. Now, there's something else coming!

My @Freshly_Pressed essay — "Is This Failure?" — just reached 100 likes, and has 55 comments thus far. You can read it here: http://ow.ly/mq4qU

Exciting news is afoot, but I'm not going to divulge just yet. So stay tuned ...

Is This Failure?

While house- and pet-sitting in a tucked-away place in the Lake District, I’ve been reading a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letters, and it, coupled with our slow-traveling situation, has had me thinking about failure — what it is, whether I’ve found it, or whether, in fact, it’s something which one achieves only when one has succumbed to it. In other words, is it possible that failure cannot be put upon a person but is, rather, a garment with which one can only clothe one’s self?

At the very time of writing this post I should be leading a writing workshop in Lancaster, just outside the Lake District, in Lancashire.

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Is This Failure? http://wp.me/p1XfHW-86 #nomadic #travel #writing #FScottFitzgerald #books

Would you like a couple Writers-in-Residence to stay with you between 18 and 25 June, in the #Carlisle area? http://ow.ly/lVbtc #Cumbria

Very much enjoying #reading F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in #Letters (ed. Matthew Bruccoli): http://ow.ly/lPnA4 #correspondence #books

Started #reading F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in #Letters (ed. Matthew Bruccoli) this evening: http://ow.ly/lPnA4 #correspondence #books

JUST UPDATED: Writers-in-Residence@Yours http://ow.ly/lEiH8 #slow #travel #writers #photographers #happyfolk (please share!)

Like to join us for a #Writing Workshop in #Kendal, Cumbria on Saturday, 8 June? http://ow.ly/lCNlK #LakeDistrict #creative #inspiration

Slicing and Dicing One's Own Existence; or, An Update After One Year of Slow Traveling http://wp.me/p1XfHW-7r #essays #philosophy

NEW Blog Post! "Slow Traveling: One Year Down the Road" http://ow.ly/lwwqM #travel #writing #workshops

Finished reading Jack Kerouac's Big Sur this morning. #travel #writing #inspiration #books

Writers-in-Residence@Yours!

If you've always liked the idea of dropping into the conversation that you've got a couple of writers-in-residence staying with you for a short time, then why not take a look at this possibility?

Alternatively, if you'd like to bring a Write from the Heart writing workshop to your town, then do get in touch — we'd love to hear from you!

Tonight, I'm writing a review of Paul Scott's Booker Prize-winning novel Staying On (1977) — his final book and coda to The Raj Quartet.



So stay tuned ...

With warm regards,

Sean

Hello friends,

Can you perhaps help us connect with folk?

We're looking for house-sitting and pet-sitting opportunities in the South East of England, and the British Isles generally, in support of our Spring/Summer 2013 British Isles Writing Workshop Tour.

You'll find more information here.

With warm regards,

Sean & Mufidah

Mufidah and I are presently house- and cat-sitting for a couple friends in our old hometown of Lewes, East Sussex — while organizing writing workshops here in the South East of England, and beyond.



Anyway, our friends have a good collection of books, and I noticed they have a copy of Paul Scott's Staying On, the Booker Prize-winning follow-on novel to Scott's likewise critically acclaimed Raj Quartet.

You can read more about my reading the Raj Quartet here. But while I've had a copy of Staying On for years, I've not, for some reason, read the whole of it. High time I do so.

I'm only a quarter of the way through the novel at this point, but it's quintessential Paul Scott — topnotch writing and characterization based upon a thorough knowledge of post-Raj India — with an extra dose of wry humor thrown into the mix.

Looking forward to continuing with it.

Presently reading "The Art of Non-Conformity" by Chris Guillebeau http://ow.ly/krrKs — given to me this week by a stranger, now friend.

... Despite my life having been, for decades, off the non-conformity map.

As of this past Thursday, Mufidah and I are back in England, after 11 months thus far of slow traveling in Europe, with no end in sight.

A week-and-a-half ago we drove out of Burgos, Spain — where we'd been living for about seven-and-a-half months — and continued on to and through France, stopping off in the Dordogne to run a 2-day writing workshop in St Julien d'Eymet.

On Thursday we arrived in Dover via ferry and drove to Hastings, where we led a writing workshop this past Saturday at The Beacon, a lovely venue where the sun shined magically and we decided to hold the whole of the workshop on the lawn, overlooking the sea and wide horizons beyond Hastings below.

We'll be in the British Isles this spring and summer running our Write from the Heart writing workshops. So, if you'd like to help us bring a workshop to your neck o' the woods, do get in touch!

You can learn more about our Spring/Summer 2013 British Isles Writing Workshop Tour here:

http://www.mindfullivingguide.com/p/2...

Hi Sean,

I will checkout some of your books.

Happy Writing,

Victoria Taylor Murray

Thank you to everyone for all your Goodreads friendships and support this past week! I really appreciate being connected with you all here.

With warm regards,

Sean

Thanks for the friendship, Sean.

Hi Sean,
thanks for adding me.
Nice to know you.