News (February 2019)

Back from my hiatus!

The past few months have been a challenge. I finished my season (in case you don't know, I draw caricatures for a living) and scrambled to find a job to cover me as I attempt once again to survive the always grueling winter season. I landed on a maintenance job thanks to a good friend, where I was employed primarily to handle snow removal duties. Needless to say, that job got hard quick. The hours went from too short, to too long in a heart beat, and my old knees just weren't cooperating with me. Throwing 50LBS bags of salt rock all day for fourteen hours starts to breakdown any immortal fantasy I might have had about my age and abilities real fast. I went from being excited to have a regular job, to finding out just how much work is required when the snow does finally come down, to somehow dismantling a snow blower (which I never used before in my life), to getting a golf cart stuck in the mud, to trying to give my job away to some random guy, to quitting, to feeling bad about quitting, to getting back at it, to not liking it again, to discovering I can make more in two days drawing cartoons, and to quitting again. It was quite a trial. So unfortunately I had to move on from that business. Good job, but one for the young, and not me anymore. However I did score a couple of pet expos, and dog shows to draw at, and that was a lot of fun. I hope to do more of those soon.

As for writing, I have been working very hard on that. Been studying and practicing my craft every day. I have some stories set aside, made specifically for my blog, which I do plan to share in the very near future after some touch ups are made. I also have a continuation to my Bassy's Basilica sketched out. That will go up probably closer to Halloween, though, as it is a horror and I want everyone to be in that sort of morbid mood when reading it. I have also begun to write some stories I want to send in to competitions, and started a new fantasy that I will be taking very seriously. I am 34 now, and I have been writing since I was thirteen years old. It is well past time I had a book listed in my achievements, so that is my main focus right now. Getting one done, and doing it right. But writing well is a learning process and I have a lot to learn. My biggest revelation this year is finding out that I was never doing enough to get better at it. Now I am, and already I see big changes. For now, Its just going to be a lot of senseless babble until I have the story I was born to write in an agent's hands. Until then, Just got to keep on working at it. Write every day, and don't quit.

NEWS (Nov 29 2017)

On our way to December. Finished a Dragon Themed Caricature drawing for a new customer, and got scheduled in for two drawing gigs for the holiday season. Its fun having time to do your own thing during the winter, but my favorite part about this time of year is having the availability to write, and study. The new project I am working on takes on conflicts involving the many social struggles that which we are battling now in our real world today. I was always told to write what I know, and in doing that I am mirroring the insane circumstances unraveling in the news: the many plights, and slimy scandals taking over every facet in our societies. Art is watching, art remembers, and perhaps this story will give us a bitter taste of our own humility when it is said in done... But it takes place in another world, so if its too much, you can just pretend that its all fantasy. Im trying to force myself to write as much as possible without my brain over heating, while I still have the time to do so. Yesterday it was a 1000 words, today I hope to do more. I will also update my blog more often, trying to do that adult stuff, you know. We shall see what tomorrow brings. Until then, back to work. Write, Study, Workout, Draw, Highfive each other. Happy Holidays!