Guest Spotlight: Drowning My Passion by Michael Hebler
My guest blogger this week is Michael Hebler. Life wasn't always about the written page. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Michael had a career as a international film publicist, working on multiple titles for Walt Disney, Pixar, Lionsgate, Lakeshore Entertainment, Warner Bros., Summit Entertainment, as well as the 2013 Academy Award® Best Foreign Language film, "La grande bellezza" (The Great Beauty). Sounds exciting, right? Currently, in his spare time, Michael also enjoys volunteering in his local community.
So without further ado, I present:
Drowning My Passion by Michael Hebler
I am no longer a “full-time” author, and admittedly, I’m relieved. Lately, I have been losing the passion as a writer, so I decided to get a job as an event coordinator, something I love to do almost as much as writing when writing was exciting to me. Something about the organization, energy, and the inspiration or enjoyment that people walk away with fulfills what writing cannot. Perhaps it’s a left-brain/right-brain thing.
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, I aided in organizing junkets and red carpet events as a film publicist. Today, I organize monthly symposiums for a popular real estate and financial education company. Just this last weekend, I sat in as a student on a 3-day basic training in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company I work for required that I get an idea of where our students came from before they signed on to be our students at symposiums. I found the information taught at the event so powerful that many times I forgot I was there to learn as an employee and I actually focused on learning as a “real” student.
After that weekend, and after I had been bitten by the real estate bug, my mind became flooded with new story ideas and my passion for writing returned. When writing, I spend a lot of time at home. I rarely visit with friends or family or do anything social because I’m afraid I would be “wasting time” when time could have been better spent writing (in case you didn’t know, writing a book is a looooong process). Ultimately, when I attended my company’s event, I had been forced to step away, have my eyes open, and gave my imagination a rest. I never realized I had been drowning my creativity by not allowing it to breathe for more than a couple of moments.
To writers, non-writers, investors, hourly, salary, artists, astronauts… if you were like me, just exhausted by something you had once been passionate about or think of a hobby as more of a hassle, give yourself the time to step away. Try doing something that would take approximately three days to a week. Don’t drown your passions as I had. They need to breathe, otherwise, they could die.
To date, Michael's publications include the first four (of six) books in his Chupacabra Series: NIGHT OF THE CHUPACABRA, CURSE OF THE CHUPACABRA, LEGEND OF THE CHUPACABRA, and DAWN OF THE CHUPACABRA, a couple of short stories, as well as his first publication, THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS, a holiday picture book for believers of any age.
Find more about him & direct links to his books at:
http://www.michaelhebler.com/
SK Thomas is a writer, author, book reviewer and the curious creative complex brain behind this blog.
Keep in touch with the blogger/author:
Website: http://www.skthomasauthor.com
Twitter: @skthomasauthor
Member of Goodreads, LinkedIn & Google+
So without further ado, I present:
Drowning My Passion by Michael Hebler
I am no longer a “full-time” author, and admittedly, I’m relieved. Lately, I have been losing the passion as a writer, so I decided to get a job as an event coordinator, something I love to do almost as much as writing when writing was exciting to me. Something about the organization, energy, and the inspiration or enjoyment that people walk away with fulfills what writing cannot. Perhaps it’s a left-brain/right-brain thing.
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, I aided in organizing junkets and red carpet events as a film publicist. Today, I organize monthly symposiums for a popular real estate and financial education company. Just this last weekend, I sat in as a student on a 3-day basic training in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company I work for required that I get an idea of where our students came from before they signed on to be our students at symposiums. I found the information taught at the event so powerful that many times I forgot I was there to learn as an employee and I actually focused on learning as a “real” student.
After that weekend, and after I had been bitten by the real estate bug, my mind became flooded with new story ideas and my passion for writing returned. When writing, I spend a lot of time at home. I rarely visit with friends or family or do anything social because I’m afraid I would be “wasting time” when time could have been better spent writing (in case you didn’t know, writing a book is a looooong process). Ultimately, when I attended my company’s event, I had been forced to step away, have my eyes open, and gave my imagination a rest. I never realized I had been drowning my creativity by not allowing it to breathe for more than a couple of moments.
To writers, non-writers, investors, hourly, salary, artists, astronauts… if you were like me, just exhausted by something you had once been passionate about or think of a hobby as more of a hassle, give yourself the time to step away. Try doing something that would take approximately three days to a week. Don’t drown your passions as I had. They need to breathe, otherwise, they could die.
To date, Michael's publications include the first four (of six) books in his Chupacabra Series: NIGHT OF THE CHUPACABRA, CURSE OF THE CHUPACABRA, LEGEND OF THE CHUPACABRA, and DAWN OF THE CHUPACABRA, a couple of short stories, as well as his first publication, THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS, a holiday picture book for believers of any age.
Find more about him & direct links to his books at:
http://www.michaelhebler.com/
SK Thomas is a writer, author, book reviewer and the curious creative complex brain behind this blog.
Keep in touch with the blogger/author:
Website: http://www.skthomasauthor.com
Twitter: @skthomasauthor
Member of Goodreads, LinkedIn & Google+
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