The jewelry thing is rolling. It is slowly but surely building steam. I've got several shows lined up and a few commissions in the pipeline and I'm shipping out Etsy sales more regularly. I just ran a half marathon over the weekend and am looking for the next race so that I'll keep running. I think I might start transitioning to trail running for ( Read more... )

Instead of the novel I can no longer bring myself to write (and I've gotten affirmation from my Taoist friend through a hypothetical vision he had, perfectly describing a tragic death in my storyline, so I definitely can not continue pursuing that), I think I'm ready to start working on a series of personal essays that I hope to shape into a memoir ( Read more... )

So, you guys know how at the beginning of the year I was all re-inspired by my novel and ready to try to hammer out a first draft throughout this year. Well... it came to me yesterday that I'm kind of living a huge chunk of my plot out right now in the real world, minus the vampires ( Read more... )

I've been working on getting reorganized and figuring out what directions I want to head this year and when I came to my writing goals, I just jotted down that I wanted to finish a first draft of the first novel in the series I started writing about a couple of years ago. I outlined and researched and outlined some more and tried to start a first ( Read more... )

I've never done this meme before, but I've been trying to write a recap of my year and it's just not coming, so I thought this would be easier. And if I stick with it from here on out, I'll have a pretty good metric going, I think.

( How my year looked, according to a predermined set of questions. )

I just had an idea for a children's book series based on Jonah and his adventures with his imaginary friend, Max. It'll be like Calvin & Hobbes, except Hobbes changes from story to story. Sometimes he's a six year old boy. Sometimes he's an adult with a son. Sometimes he's younger than Jonah. Somethings he's a pilot or a construction worker or a ( Read more... )

I have a theory about why writers are typically reclusive. You have to be highly engaged in life in order to write fiction convincingly. You have to be able to describe a feeling in words. You have to know when those feelings will arise, in which situations they're typical. You have to imitate life so closely that story is indistinguishable from ( Read more... )

A summary I wrote of a multi-framed piece of the Things Jonah Says comic I'm working on. It amuses me ( Read more... )

So, I think it's time for a standard update on doings that are transpiring. There's really not much to say, so this should go quickly. But then I've never been known for brevity...

( like ever. )

Now that I'm done crying and I have a plan (although an expensive one) and some reassurance from a professional that all is probably not lost, I guess I'll make a post about the past 24 trauma-filled hours. Let my stupidity be a lesson to you all!

My laptop is hosed. The linux partition has vanished from sight. There are some disk errors there. That ( Read more... )