There! Done! I think I've conquered all of the problems and insanities in my life now. This isn't exactly where I thought I'd be, but it'll do. Being creative begins again now, anyway, I swear it and that's what you guys care about the most, isn't it?

Want proof? Here. A teaser for you guys. Now that it exists, I can't leave it empty for long. I'm paying for that sucker, after all.

What'll it be? Not saying yet. I have this habit of jinxing myself when I divulge project plans. You'll see. You'll see. By January 1st, with bits and pieces appearing before then, you'll see. For those who've forgotten, The Prophecy of the Circle is the title of the novel trilogy that I've been planning/writing/re-writing/making perfect since I was twelve or so. This won't be the books themselves, but it's a story and it's a lead-in. That's your clue.

Now back I go to making things for it.

*whew* Almost back. I finally finished dealing with rush at the college bookstore I work in. That was probably one of the worst rushes I've ever had to handle. There are various reasons for that, none of which are really worth mentioning in great detail. I've just had a lot of stress to handle, both at work and outside of it. Not that it was all doom and gloom, of course. I had good days as well as bad days, and I got to meet ~Jc2theW there, which was a fun bit of random coincidence from the universe. It was nice having a familiar face around the store for once.

Some of the stress-causing issues are still ongoing. My life is starting to slow down a bit, but I'm not in a position to relax quite yet. For example, next weekend I start packing various belongings into boxes and between the first and the tenth of October I'm moving to a new apartment. I have a lot of tupperware to get rid of. Where it all came from, I have no idea, but rest assured that most of it will not follow me.

I'm also working on going back to school. I was accepted to Athabasca University to finish off the Professional Writing and Communications Bachelor Degree that I started at Grant MacEwan. I desperately need to talk to an advisor before I start, though, so I'm putting that plan on hiatus until after I'm moved and settled. After talking to the advisor and getting all of my student loan information in place, I should be ready to start. January seems like a good deadline to aim for. If it's sooner, huzzah, but I'm not rushing myself unnecessarily.

So that's part of what I've been doing during my lengthy hiatus. Setting things in motion. On the creative front, I haven't been completely useless either. I stopped drawing for the most part, but I did write a whole ton. The story that I've always been talking about, The Prophecy of the Circle, almost has book one completed. The novels still won't see publication until all three are written (I need to completely discover where this story is going before I set any of it in stone), but I don't plan to leave everyone waiting for me. I have a project, tentatively called Book Zero, that I'm hoping I'll be able to properly reveal in the next short little while. Anyone whose been curious about the story living in my head will get an introduction to the universe very soon if I have anything to say about it.

I only hope that it lives up to expectations.

Lunch time.

I think I'm ready to come back here. At least, I will be soon. I finished several pieces months ago, and I've been sketching again lately.

My life is actually more insane right now than it ever has been before, and only some of it's predictable. Some of it surprised me, and I've been pretty much stressed right out. I pick strange times to pick up old habits. Point is, if it still takes me a week to fully get back into this thing, that's why. I'll start now, though.

Anyone miss me?

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Requests? No.
Trades? No.
Commissions? Yes. Note me if interested.

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I think it's about time I just faced up to the fact that I've been the exact opposite of active lately. I let deviations pile up, I don't submit anything (nor do I create much that I could submit), and sometimes I just forget to visit this place for weeks.

I do that with most of the internet lately, really. Not just here.

This year's just been spent playing catch up with everything. At least I'm making progress. When I know where my head is, I'll be back.

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Requests? No.
Trades? No.
Commissions? Yes. Note me if interested.

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I put some things into storage that I wasn't happy with anymore, particularly when I felt that it was a less than stellar example of my skills, even at the time of creation, and yet it was getting faved into the top of my gallery. Some of those are probably going to be eventually (someday; I keep saying that) replaced with versions that aren't so shoddy. In case you're wondering where a certain piece disappeared to, that's where she be.

Fickle artist is fickle.

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