Psychological Suspense, Travel, Romance, Erotica, Paranormal - Stories, Poetry, and Excerpts
Read never before published stories and excerpts from J. Sharland’s novels including the fact-based-fiction suspense travel thriller Under the Umbrella of Paradise, the paranormal psychological suspense novel Shadows of the Ripples, and the suspense travel horror novel The RV Park.
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Celebrating the Navajo Blanket (and Its Deliberate Imperfections)
Once your creativity has taken hold and you feel good about the direction you are going, the hard part, all too often, then becomes when do I stop?
Picasso was credited as saying, “You’re never finished with a work of art, you just abandon it.”
That is true for me when I paint. It’s hard not to want to keep touching the paint, moving it around or adding more, which oftentimes ends up muddying the purer colors, and I think, why didn’t I just leave it alone?