Tikiman and the Viking Podcast

12/04/2025

A SHORT PIECE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

The best thing a writer can do is to venture beyond their comfort level. Whether it is genre or medium, you can’t sharpen a dull knife. It’s important to maintain your edge. I have written plays, screenplays, short stories, novels, and poems. However, shorter fiction was new to me, what is called Flash Fiction. When I had the chance to spread my wings, so to speak, I took advantage....

The best thing a writer can do is to venture beyond their comfort level. Whether it is genre or medium, you can’t sharpen a dull knife. It’s important to maintain your edge. I have written plays, s…

11/26/2025

READJUSTMENT

A quote widely (but perhaps erroneously) attributed to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results. The truth is most of us do change, modify, adapt, whether it is intentional and measured or simply happens out of necessity. As we age, our bodies can no longer do the things we used to do, in spite of medications, exercises, and all methods of denying natural laws....

A quote widely (but perhaps erroneously) attributed to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results. The truth is most of us do change, mod…

11/26/2025

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11/24/2025

11/24/2025

Writers are small businesses. Support local. Buy local. Makes great gifts.

11/20/2025

FOLLOW YOUR OWN PATH

I have attended the OWFI writers conference for several years, was former president of KWA, and was a speaker at the Kansas Authors Club conference. I am co-host of Tikiman and the Viking Podcast. This is not intended to be a resume or a job interview. The point is that I am not Thomas Chatterton sitting in an attic garret and working painfully alone....

I have attended the OWFI writers conference for several years, was former president of KWA, and was a speaker at the Kansas Authors Club conference. I am co-host of Tikiman and the Viking Podcast. …

11/13/2025

I wish it were nothing but divine inspiration. Unfortunately, it's not.

11/13/2025

11/13/2025

I recently had the opportunity to go to VAN GOGH: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE. I do enjoy museums greatly and am not typically into high-tech exhibitions such as this. However, given the nature of the artist himself, I quickly understood what it was like to be him and to gather more understanding of his nature both as a person and an artist....

I recently had the opportunity to go to VAN GOGH: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE. I do enjoy museums greatly and am not typically into high-tech exhibitions such as this. However, given the nature of the…

11/10/2025

Hiya everyone, it is I, the Viking. If you have a moment, I would like to get Middle-Aged Man in a Trashcan into the running for the Indie Ink Awards.

https://indiestorygeek.com/story/10579

A nomination would mean a lot to me.

Thanks,

Brian