I’m born anew — or at least attempting such. I don’t mean a half-hearted single post every year or so either. I mean a full-fledged rise from the ashes with a return to posting regularity and a wary embrace of the public.

I hid for a long while because life got hard and things got personal. Circumstances changed enormously. I got lost for a while and lacked direction, but I kept moving because at least I had my work.

And then my work began to die off…

Publishers closed, and assignments grew scarce. Competition grew, and everyone I mentored surpassed me. The market isn’t what it used to be — the bubble’s bursting, and I’m just one of far too many. So for the last year I’ve tried to get back to a day job situation, but after freelancing full-time for so long, I’ve lost my competitive edge. Despite the abundance of talent, skills, and experience I know I have, no job worth having and keeping was offered to me.

Forever passed before I had an epiphany, sparked by my very late discovery of an actor and comedian whose rise to fame and maintenance of it was all due to a very active internet presence, from back when the internet was new, to now. It made me remember that’s how I got my career, too. It made me realize how much of that I’d dropped and left behind. Perhaps blogging and tweeting again, reaching out to those craving good content, can help me get back on track. I’ve got so much in me to share, and I won’t know until I try.

So here I am. I make small changes everyday, but I’ll get there — back to the trail that leads out of the dark woods and toward civilization. I need to make a living, after all, and I can’t do that peddling my services to wildlife; I need to reach out to people.

Those who have read and followed me before and are still around — who have pointed out my creativity, humor, and mad Photoshop skills — I’m still the same person I was; I just hid it all from public view for a while because the world is a scary place which sometimes overwhelms me, and people can be weird and creepy. All I ask is that you watch this space.

I plan to fill it.

Share this post: