So I am back from hiatus.
Short explanation:
I was in a dark place. I got over complaining about what bothered me and didn't want to talk about.... well, anything. Coming here to vent stopped providing relief. Also it was brought to my attention that potential employers might find this, and that would seriously conflict with the face I was trying to present to the world. Finally that line didn't play out.
Why I'm back:
Because I'm working again. My creative juices are flowing once again and I do well putting my thoughts on the screen.
So the big news is an entirely new take on my novel. I started working on the novel (then titled "George Orion novel") that has become the focus of much of my creativity on 1/15/2011. The main force behind writing it was simple: it hadn't been written yet. I have a very Germanic attitude towards that which does not yet exist. If it doesn't exist yet, and is a good idea then I try to make it happen.
So I started with about 4 chapters.... then hit a solid roadblock (other writers know what I'm talking about). So I shelved the project and moved on with my life.
Then in fall of 2013.. I quit my job and took a writing workshop. The project was renamed "Darkness Rising" which I was told by my friends wasn't original.... yet I fleshed out what I had and expanded to 8(or 9) chapters.... Then the semester ended and the project was shelved again.
Last month my therapist insisted that I was deeply depressed and had to start taking something for it. Naturally I was resistant, for one I had up to that point been on no less than 10 treatments for depression. The only thing to ever work was weed, and I had to quit for my career.
But I didn't have a good reason not to, so I allowed them to prescribe something new, and from a new class. Suddenly it started working. Now I'm more creative than I have EVER been in my adult life, and the depression is gone.
So I'm changing the title a third time (hopefully last).... to "Rising". I look forward to uploading some samples, and maybe publishing it as an ebook.... maybe. This is not in any way about my career, I like where my job hunt is going and I want to continue to have the freedom to write what I want to (sort of, I'm not allowed to start another novel until this one is done). I don't care if I don't make a cent on THIS book, I prefer to retain creative control. So that makes publishing a challenge. I've been a professional writer, and breaking in that way isn't the way for me.
But I won't be releasing the whole thing for free, there will be some sort of fee structure set up. On that same note most of the early funds will go for trying to send a run to print.
So I'm off to work. Another day in paradise.
Short explanation:
I was in a dark place. I got over complaining about what bothered me and didn't want to talk about.... well, anything. Coming here to vent stopped providing relief. Also it was brought to my attention that potential employers might find this, and that would seriously conflict with the face I was trying to present to the world. Finally that line didn't play out.
Why I'm back:
Because I'm working again. My creative juices are flowing once again and I do well putting my thoughts on the screen.
So the big news is an entirely new take on my novel. I started working on the novel (then titled "George Orion novel") that has become the focus of much of my creativity on 1/15/2011. The main force behind writing it was simple: it hadn't been written yet. I have a very Germanic attitude towards that which does not yet exist. If it doesn't exist yet, and is a good idea then I try to make it happen.
So I started with about 4 chapters.... then hit a solid roadblock (other writers know what I'm talking about). So I shelved the project and moved on with my life.
Then in fall of 2013.. I quit my job and took a writing workshop. The project was renamed "Darkness Rising" which I was told by my friends wasn't original.... yet I fleshed out what I had and expanded to 8(or 9) chapters.... Then the semester ended and the project was shelved again.
Last month my therapist insisted that I was deeply depressed and had to start taking something for it. Naturally I was resistant, for one I had up to that point been on no less than 10 treatments for depression. The only thing to ever work was weed, and I had to quit for my career.
But I didn't have a good reason not to, so I allowed them to prescribe something new, and from a new class. Suddenly it started working. Now I'm more creative than I have EVER been in my adult life, and the depression is gone.
So I'm changing the title a third time (hopefully last).... to "Rising". I look forward to uploading some samples, and maybe publishing it as an ebook.... maybe. This is not in any way about my career, I like where my job hunt is going and I want to continue to have the freedom to write what I want to (sort of, I'm not allowed to start another novel until this one is done). I don't care if I don't make a cent on THIS book, I prefer to retain creative control. So that makes publishing a challenge. I've been a professional writer, and breaking in that way isn't the way for me.
But I won't be releasing the whole thing for free, there will be some sort of fee structure set up. On that same note most of the early funds will go for trying to send a run to print.
So I'm off to work. Another day in paradise.
