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Loren Mayshark

Loren Mayshark

How Failure Feeds Creativity

Although Thomas Edison remains a hotly debated character, he is generally considered a creative genius. He is also considered by many the…

Apr 7, 2021

How Failure Feeds Creativity

Apr 7, 2021

Loren Mayshark

Why You Don’t Always Need to Give 100%

The other day while I was working out at the gym, I saw this muscular guy wearing a t-shirt saying, “Always Give 100%.” This got me…

Dec 2, 2020

Why You Don’t Always Need to Give 100%

Dec 2, 2020

Loren Mayshark

Failure is an Opportunity on the Road to Success

“I have failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan

Nov 4, 2020

Failure is an Opportunity on the Road to Success

Nov 4, 2020

Loren Mayshark

Is Hip-hop Dead?

The Music of My Youth Influenced Generations

Oct 7, 2020

Is Hip-hop Dead?

Oct 7, 2020

Loren Mayshark

Canceled by the Coronavirus in Sweden

I normally would not take such a risk, not thinking so much for my own well-being, but the lives of others who could be compromised, if I…

Sep 16, 2020

Canceled by the Coronavirus in Sweden

Sep 16, 2020

Loren Mayshark

Freeing Yourself Through Poetry

Poetry has been a part of my life most of the way. While working on Subterranean Mixtape, I exhumed some of my earliest poems, and it has…

Jul 16, 2020

Freeing Yourself Through Poetry

Jul 16, 2020

Loren Mayshark

10 Facts About Hermann Hesse to Celebrate His Birthday

Perhaps no other writer captured my imagination as much as Hermann Hesse did in my early twenties. Both my parents admired Hesse, and it…

Jul 2, 2020

10 Facts About Hermann Hesse to Celebrate His Birthday

Jul 2, 2020

Loren Mayshark

How My Journey Through Fiction Made Me a Better Writer

Often a large part of the DNA of a writer is affected by the inputs and influences. Perhaps the most pronounced is the other writers that…

Jun 29, 2020

How My Journey Through Fiction Made Me a Better Writer

Jun 29, 2020

Loren Mayshark

Memorial Day Reflections

I remember, as a child, my parents taking me to Main Street in the little village of Sherman, NY every year to see old men marching in…

May 24, 2018

Memorial Day Reflections

May 24, 2018

Loren Mayshark

Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049 help us question Reality

The remake of Blade Runner, which is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? reminds us of the man’s…

Nov 13, 2017

Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049 help us question Reality

Nov 13, 2017

Loren Mayshark

Loren Mayshark

Award-winning author of Death: An Exploration (2016) and Academic Betrayal (April 2017). For more info please visit: http://lorenmayshark.com.

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