Still moving forward

Draft of the novel is still in progress - I'm excited and scared at the same time.

Job stuff has my attention at the moment; apologies for the lack of communication. In addition to the novel I'm cranking on a couple of short stories - one is in with Stacia over at Indiebloggers and hopefully it'll be published.

I had a great meeting with a friend who does contract CG work for various people - he's responsible for some of the pre-game graphics you see for the Giants, the 49ers, the New Jersey Devils and other folks. In terms of being creative for a living as opposed to doing it at night with desktop support for a day job, he had a few things to relate. Likening the process of being creative for pay, he called it 'looking into a big, dark forest'. It's scary at first, he said, but eventually you find your way to the clearing and from there you declare a niche of sorts.

I'm still looking into the dark forest, according to him. I know I want to take that step but there are a lot of what-if questions that I'm afraid of being on the wrong side of. Maybe this is too revealing - maybe you have something to share - this is probably why I'm writing this. I guess I've been struggling with trying to make the creative side of me something I can do as a day job. It's a difficult process because I've always been better at being resilient rather than at being successful. Not defining success as 'just being rich' but rather just getting what I want to accomplish over the transom. I don't know how I'm going to get this novel written or what I'm going to do after that. I just know that it is time for me to punch through some barriers that have been holding me back.