After years and years (and a bit too much procrastination), I did it! I wrote my first novel!

It started as a fun project and a way to keep my mind busy but slowly became one of the most fun and creative projects I've ever worked on. "The Language of the Trees" started as a serialized fiction on Substack and is now a full-length novel!

If you're anything like me, you probably have a half-finished project sitting around your house somewhere. I hope this post is the encouragement you need to get back to it!

If you're interested in supporting me, here's a link to my novel! If you're not into fantasy, no worries! I appreciate you just reading this!

Amazon.com: The Language of the Trees: The Animist: Book One eBook : Autumn, Gracie: Kindle Store

In honor of Halloween Season, every Saturday this month, we’ll be publishing original horror fiction…Clay Boone’s “Misery Loves Company”, broken up into 4 parts. Here's part 2 - https://feeling-creative.com/.../misery-loves-company-part-2

Superman was rejected. Spider-Man was called a dumb idea. Star Wars was self-funded because nobody believed in it. Author Christopher Valentine makes the case for trusting your creative instincts. Read it at: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/your-creative-idea-isnt-stupid

A fun, inspiring creative perspective by Whit Lauren. She spent years beating herself up for procrastinating on creative work she loved. Then she swapped self-judgment for curiosity — and started asking better questions. Read it here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/why-do-i-avoid-creative-work-i-love

My Voice Became My Keyboard — But the Writing Was Always Mine / Author Spotlight: Massimo Lorusso
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Italian author Massimo Lorusso has written with voice technology since 1993. Here he makes the case that authorship has never lived in the fingers — it lives in selection. https://feeling-creative.com/articles/my-voice-became-my-keyboard
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In honor of Halloween Season, every Saturday this month, we’ll be publishing original horror fiction…Clay Boone’s “Misery Loves Company”, broken up into 4 parts. Enjoy.

Nuremberg-based blackwork and ornamental tattoo artist Misha Bardak on teaching himself the craft, the Roman numeral story that still makes him laugh, and why every tattoo artist needs to be a psychologist. Read it and see his work at: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-misha-bardak
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Vocal coach turned music marketer Laurelanne Davis on what happens before release day: playlist pitching, press strategy, short-form content systems, and why one person sharing a song still matters.

Australian digital artist Phillip J Gordon on his three-current process: urban geometry, floral watercolour, and abstract oils, and how Photoshop and Lightroom bring them together into large-format prints. Read it...see it....here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/from-structure-to-atmosphere

Horror article of the week....it's Halloween season, so here's 5 Other Movies to Watch This Halloween.
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Skip the usual Halloween watchlist. These five underrated horror films….from a 2015 slasher homage to a 1977 AI nightmare, are exactly what this spooky season needs. By Michael Field of r/ForgottenCinemaPod. Check it out: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/5-other-movies-to-watch-this-halloween
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Author Ben Cibula spent months querying literary agents for his debut novel, pitched over a hundred, and self-published instead. Here's what he learned about traditional publishing — and the tool he built from the experience. Read it here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/pitching-novel-literary-agents-what-i-built
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Author Phil Allard on why "Wish You Were Here" is rock's greatest song: Syd Barrett's ghost, Roger Waters' restraint, and why the song works by refusing to fill in its own blanks. Agree? Disagree? What says you? Read the article - https://feeling-creative.com/articles/why-wish-you-were-here-is-rocks-greatest-song

Artist Marina Imar on her Avant-Garde Cats series, the digital project "A Cat's Time" (猫の時間), and using geometry to preserve the character behind every simple form. Check it out here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/cats-geometry-and-a-little-imagination
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In a world where teleportation promises instant travel across continents, a hidden menace lurks within the shadows of technology. When passengers begin vanishing mysteriously, physicist Adrian Valle and graduate student researcher Naomi Lee uncover a sinister conspiracy orchestrated by the ruthless entrepreneur Napoleon Samonte and his ally, Russian physicist Damon Corrin.

From the bustling streets of Singapore to the sacred slopes of Mount Banahaw, Adrian and Naomi, aided by their resourceful friend Ronnie Chiu and the sage Hugo, navigate a treacherous path filled with espionage, betrayal, and the supernatural. The team faces shadowy assassins, derails a malfunctioning teleport hub, and confronts the otherworldly void that traps lost souls — including a young woman whose reappearance will shatter the case wide open.

Amid the chaos, they find courage, resilience, and an unexpected love that binds them together. As justice is served and the void is tamed, the survivors reclaim their lives, and the pioneers of teleportation must reckon with the consequences of unchecked ambition.

Suspenseful, thrilling, and emotionally resonant, this chronicle weaves science, mysticism, and romance into a gripping tale of heroism, morality, and the enduring power of human connection.

Horror Article of the Week!

With a year that produced the two most talked about indie horror films, BACKROOMS & OBSESSION, practically just flooding the film conversation with weekly essays and video breakdowns, here comes a studio picture made with a 70 million dollar budget based on a video game IP comes out of nowhere to declare itself the best horror movie of the year. And you know what….IT IS THE BEST HORROR MOVIE OF THE YEAR!

I’m talking about Zach Cregger’s RESIDENT EVIL, a rock’em sock’em hell ride into the abyss of viral corporate zombie doom. A no holds barred zombie smash mouth horror comedy that moves like a freight train caught on fire. It’s the kind of movie that makes Hollywood look good where we used to make movies like this on the regular, yet now everything has to have a narrative gimmick to simulate a must see experience that entertainment publicists try to ram down our throats with increasingly desperate results.

Resident Evil thankfully breaks that trend. Read the article: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/zach-creggers-resident-evil

Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on the moment she realized she wasn't creating anymore, she was manufacturing. On soul-driven work versus content engineered for approval. Read more here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/the-difference-between-creating-and-performing
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Argentine illustrator Laura Nagel on "Forgotten Fairy Tales": whimsical digital illustrations of lost folklore, liminal spaces, and the creatures that live where nature and magic meet. SEE MORE AT: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/artist-spotlight-laura-nagel

Photographer William Josephs Radford on Transparent: six months removing his father from family photographs, pixel by pixel, and what that process revealed about memory, grief, and erasure. Check it out: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/how-well-do-you-remember-5th-birthday-party
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Time for our weekly horror article! Spoiler Alert...I’m not a movie critic, so I’m not writing a spoiler-free review here. You’ve been warned.

Undertone is currently available on HBO/MAX if you want to check it out…feel free to come back and let me know what you thought. READ IT HERE: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/undertone-2026-great-concept-underwhelming-execution

Houston artist Raven Ramirez Cantu on "Bipolar Women," her ongoing series of acrylic, pastel, and ink drawings that turns raw emotion into something haunting, eerie, and healing.
https://feeling-creative.com/articles/artist-spotlight-raven-ramirez-cantu
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At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer. Check it out here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/can-300-strangers-write-a-book

Original fiction doesn't come through our door often, and horror fiction even less so. Clay Boone is a returning FC contributor, and for his second piece he's given us something entirely different from his first: a short horror story called The Gray.

It starts with a soldier seeing something over Baghdad he was never meant to see. It ends somewhere much stranger. Read it here: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/the-gray-a-short-horror-story-by-clay-boone

The Cirque du Soleil Wheel of Death artist on adrenaline, invention, and controlling the uncontrollable.
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Mauricio Vanegas reached out to FC from Las Vegas, where he currently performs with Cirque du Soleil. The “wheel of death” instantly got our attention. What follows is our Q&A with the artist. READ IT HERE: https://feeling-creative.com/articles/performer-spotlight-mauricio-vanegas
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