David H Lyman

Storyteller

Creativity is not merely sitting around dreaming up the next Great Idea. It’s taking a small idea and turning it into the next Great Thing. And, it all begins by taking “Action.”


      Author Lyman knows this process well. He’s launched enterprises, founded schools, built a colleges, writes for magazines, authors book, lectures on creativity and leads workshops. He’s failed more times than succeeded, but when he does succeed, it as Big Success. It’s from these failures and success, along with his fellowship with many of the world’s most talented and successful photographers and filmmakers that he initiated a series of lectures and now this book.

     If you have an idea, dream of a better, more rewarding career, this book will lead you, step by step, through the process all ideas and dreams go through on their way to being made real.

     While you are on this path to make your dream real, you may find your idea has far out grown what you thought it might be, because  ideas attract ideas, and that’s The Creative Process. You’ll also discover a great deal about yourself and of what you are capable of creating. Each new idea tackled is in preparation for future ideas. So, get started . . .

Not yet publishged, but I have a first draft cxompleted.

A Vietnam Memoir From

a Navy Photojournalist


This memoir was published by McFarland Publishing in 2019. It has  sold out, but is still available as a Kindel eBook on Amazon, and for $15. That's less than half the price of the printed book which was $35.


Overview

Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By the summer of 1967 he found himself with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Vietnam.

     A photographer and journalist in civilian life, he was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as the editor of the unit's monthly newspaper, documenting the lives of the hard-working and harder-drinking U.S. Navy SeaBees. His unit spent 7 months in Chu Lai as they engineered the infrastructure of war—roads, runways, heliports and base camps for troops on the edges of the conflict. He got also shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway, and rode along on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph the villages outside “The Wire.”

     The stories and photographs Lyman are from the battalion’s newspaper, The Transit, from memory and recent conversations with shipmates, or I guess you say Bee-mates.

     This memoir follow David's 14-months wi the Seabees.

     www.Seabee71.com

     

The book is Books 225 pages

131 Photographs, maps and graphics.

There are 17 Chapters covering the years 1963 to 1967, especially the 7 months the unit service in Chu Lai, 60 miles south of DaNang.


The Creative Process

A practical guide

to help turn your ideas and dreams

into something real.


The First 13 Chapters


Cuba! A colorful and magical island with a stogy communist government standing in the way. This memoir is the story of the 5 years (1996 through 2002) I attempted to establish a media school in Havana. You’ll meet the Cubans, the photographers and some of the students who came.

     Things do not go smoothly as I negotiate Cuba's communist bureaucracy. But we did have three good seasons in Havana and as with most adventure, even those that fail, we learn a lot— as did the more than 500 photographers and photojournalists joined me.

     Much of this memoir was written as I lived it, trapped in journal entries and photographic negatives.  Now its getting ready to share.

     I've completed the initial draft, and the first 13 chapter ready to share.

     I'd like a few people to read and share their impression on the story, the narrative voice.

     I'm not looking for an editor or a proof-reader—I have those people—just tell me where and when the story bogs down, what needs to be thrown out, and what needs to be rewritten, better, retold. Are there questions that need answering?

     Email comments to] DHLyman@mac.com.

     

Click below to access the each of first 13 chapters.