I feel as though I just awakened from a long evil spell.
When I thought to post here I was shocked to see that the last post was like over a month ago. Not good.
After Nano was over I took a breather. I deliberately stopped writing for a little while. Bad idea.
Turns out, that if I am not writing I can wander very far off the trail. So, let me fill you in on what I found, out there. In order to do that I shall need totell you of things that I do that are not writing.
The hobbies relevant to this post are that I sculpt and do digital art in various forms. I make CG cartoons, and paint in photoshop and so on. I also paint traditionally, but that’s not important. The important part is that I sculpt traditionally. By that I mean with physical clay and actual tools. (Like metal pointy things, and so on).
Around the holidays, I ran into a sale on 3d printers. Now, I had never really thought much of them, because I could make all that stuff (the objects that they can print) with my own hands. And they seemed to produce crude results anyway. But these printers were so inexpensive, that I was intrigued.
Plus, a friend of mine had had one for almost a year, so we talked about different things to do with them.
Long story short, I bought one.
It was like a gateway drug. I have been printing almost non-stop since getting the first one and have since acquired a second one. (And a growing collection of filaments)
So, if you’ve been wondering what happened to me (and I’m certain that you’ve been thinking of nothing else) now you know. I was seduced by the heady allure of molten plastic and whirring stepper motors.
But I’m back now. The initial excitement of the new adventure has settled down. I shall now return to spending most of my time writing. And the making of interesting pieces of plastic will be done only in my spare time.
Uranus Update
My deep dark space novel has been waiting patiently for me to finish it.
Now that I am back in the writing saddle, I should have that done in just a couple or three weeks. As I write this it is January27th, so I expect it to be finished and available for purchase on or about the end of February.
I will keep you updated on it.
So, I apologize (not really) for my absence. And don’t be surprised if some of my stories start having 3d printers in them. (snort)