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I feel as though I just awakened from a long evil spell.<\/p>\nI feel as though I just awakened from a long evil spell.<\/p>\n
When I thought to post here I was shocked to see that the last post was like over a month ago. Not good.<\/p>\n
After Nano was over I took a breather. I deliberately stopped writing for a little while. Bad idea.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Plus, a friend of mine had had one for almost a year, so we talked about different things to do with them.<\/p>\n
Long story short, I bought one.<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
My deep dark space novel has been waiting patiently for me to finish it.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I will keep you updated on it.<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
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