DEEPEST WINTER
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2011-07-05
July 4th, 2011
More or less, I've returned.
It's been a long, difficult time in between posts, what with managing my failing memory and balancing obligations to my parents while trying to find a job to repay my college loans.
Deepest Winter has been on hold, but I have made progress on the next few pages.
Not like anyone's gonna read this for months, probably, but whatever. I try. And that's all anyone can ask, and all I can give.
The new pages should be uploaded to the buffer by the end of summer.
Why the end of summer?
Well, for a myriad of reasons.
One, I've been on vacation in Michigan for about a month now; my friend Skal-Tel from deviantART dragged me up here to visit him for a week, and now that his break is done, I've been bunking at my grandparents' house.
I was supposed to head back home to Florida in a week here, but Grandpa recently had some minor heart surgery. They didn't really do anything other than take a peek and tell him he has a clogged artery that's too small to balloon or stint, so he's on medications. And because of all this, Grandma and my mom and dad don't want him doing heavy work, so...Guess which "young, strong and physically fit 22-year-old" gets to fill in for him for the summer?
Yep.
I'm getting paid for stuff like mowing the lawn, re-staining the front porch, maybe taking out the fallen trees from the tornado storm that passed through three days ago.
We only got the storm though, thankfully, no tornadoes; the only one that touched down was several miles away.
But yeah, I'm now more or less a servant for a month or two. The big draw is that I'm being PAID, whereas if I went back home, I'd pretty much be sitting with my thumbs up my ass submitting applications and waiting for people to bother to read them, and even then, I'd be lucky if they'd consider me since I don't fit the "high priority" bill of being in college. 'Tis why I've been jobless for the past year, by no fault of my own after all those applications to every available store and business in the area and the countless failed attempts at reaching the managers, and it's not likely to change, so I gotta take what I can get.
Especially since some old loans from way back in 2008 didn't enter repayment status until this May, and the only notification was an email alert that never even made it into my inbox (no clue what's up with that, even Sallie Mae doesn't know), so now I'm $500 more in debt to my dad who graciously paid it off.
Which, in the end, doesn't help the rampant depression issues I've been suffering from.
It's bad, to the point where I can't even remember to eat during the day or even go to the bathroom, much less ass myself to write or draw.
This vacation has been helping me recharge; any deviantART watchers here will see that from the fanfiction chapters I've been cranking out, but I still need a huge spark to really get going on the comic again.
And, seguing into that note, I figured I might as well apply for dA's Comic-Con scholarship they're offering for two people to go to Comic-Con this year and get information from the experts on comic development.
Fingers crossed, though life has taught me not to get high hopes for anything. I hope I'm selected though, could be the huge break I've needed for so long.
So, yeah. Here's my update and excuse for not working on this comic for so long.
I'm hoping that a Comic-Con visit will give me the spark I need, will help fit the pieces in place, to really get me going on this more seriously. I think part of the problem is that since I've been soloing this for so long, I'm floundering.
I want this story to work; I want to be able to make comics and give flesh to the skeletons of my stories, but I'm still kinda shooting in the dark here, so...here's hoping I'll be selected and that it'll either guide me or punt me in the right direction for this venue.
It's been a long, difficult time in between posts, what with managing my failing memory and balancing obligations to my parents while trying to find a job to repay my college loans.
Deepest Winter has been on hold, but I have made progress on the next few pages.
Not like anyone's gonna read this for months, probably, but whatever. I try. And that's all anyone can ask, and all I can give.
The new pages should be uploaded to the buffer by the end of summer.
Why the end of summer?
Well, for a myriad of reasons.
One, I've been on vacation in Michigan for about a month now; my friend Skal-Tel from deviantART dragged me up here to visit him for a week, and now that his break is done, I've been bunking at my grandparents' house.
I was supposed to head back home to Florida in a week here, but Grandpa recently had some minor heart surgery. They didn't really do anything other than take a peek and tell him he has a clogged artery that's too small to balloon or stint, so he's on medications. And because of all this, Grandma and my mom and dad don't want him doing heavy work, so...Guess which "young, strong and physically fit 22-year-old" gets to fill in for him for the summer?
Yep.
I'm getting paid for stuff like mowing the lawn, re-staining the front porch, maybe taking out the fallen trees from the tornado storm that passed through three days ago.
We only got the storm though, thankfully, no tornadoes; the only one that touched down was several miles away.
But yeah, I'm now more or less a servant for a month or two. The big draw is that I'm being PAID, whereas if I went back home, I'd pretty much be sitting with my thumbs up my ass submitting applications and waiting for people to bother to read them, and even then, I'd be lucky if they'd consider me since I don't fit the "high priority" bill of being in college. 'Tis why I've been jobless for the past year, by no fault of my own after all those applications to every available store and business in the area and the countless failed attempts at reaching the managers, and it's not likely to change, so I gotta take what I can get.
Especially since some old loans from way back in 2008 didn't enter repayment status until this May, and the only notification was an email alert that never even made it into my inbox (no clue what's up with that, even Sallie Mae doesn't know), so now I'm $500 more in debt to my dad who graciously paid it off.
Which, in the end, doesn't help the rampant depression issues I've been suffering from.
It's bad, to the point where I can't even remember to eat during the day or even go to the bathroom, much less ass myself to write or draw.
This vacation has been helping me recharge; any deviantART watchers here will see that from the fanfiction chapters I've been cranking out, but I still need a huge spark to really get going on the comic again.
And, seguing into that note, I figured I might as well apply for dA's Comic-Con scholarship they're offering for two people to go to Comic-Con this year and get information from the experts on comic development.
Fingers crossed, though life has taught me not to get high hopes for anything. I hope I'm selected though, could be the huge break I've needed for so long.
So, yeah. Here's my update and excuse for not working on this comic for so long.
I'm hoping that a Comic-Con visit will give me the spark I need, will help fit the pieces in place, to really get me going on this more seriously. I think part of the problem is that since I've been soloing this for so long, I'm floundering.
I want this story to work; I want to be able to make comics and give flesh to the skeletons of my stories, but I'm still kinda shooting in the dark here, so...here's hoping I'll be selected and that it'll either guide me or punt me in the right direction for this venue.
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