I'll be slowly getting back into writing and art projects over the Christmas break from my actual job. I love what I do for a living, but even if you love what you do, you still need a break every now and then - me included. I still have a lingering cough from that dreadful cold that is going around, but I'm feeling much better than I was.
As I stated before taking some time away, I'm going to be backing away from indie horror for a bit while the drama calms down and new additions to the community learn to treat others with respect. That won't really impact releases for 2023 (I'll be formatting the next two shortly) but it will impact releases for 2024 onwards. I haven't seen such as explosion of red flags post-legal changes since the creeps when I was newly single.
I do plan on starting the year focusing more on visual art and hope to finish it focusing on sound. Writing plans for the year mainly involve finishing up We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, which I had started when I was a freelancer so it needs a lot of work. And I also want to do something with Snow White (I still haven't decided how to release it, especially with backing away a bit). Plus some experimental stuff (mainly written for now before going multi-media with it) and some erotica. With We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, the intention was always to go through the traditional publishing route. I obviously really learned how to self publish these last few years (I'll put that up in a year in review soon) but I will be going back to the more traditional publishing routes now that I'm confident and happy with self publishing (just need to hone the skills).
In terms of life, this upcoming year is more of a holding pattern year. I'm going to need to pay off the debt from those ten years I wasn't allowed to work in the field in which I'm qualified to work. So, I can't really do anything exciting or life changing.
Once the debt is cleared, then it is that last problem (the really complex one) gifted to me by people not letting me work in the field I'm qualified to work in (thankfully I have a paper-trail going all the way back to 2007 of me trying to work and family not letting me, which in turn attracted more people who were just the same as my family into my life, it didn't let up until the law changed and even then, it only let up, it didn't stop). All the debt is on a repayment plan already, so nice and set up to start 2023 right. I have obviously started paying back some of it. I'll still have some to pay back into 2024 though. Then once that final problem is clear, I'll be seriously looking into moving abroad (not to a Common Wealth country or a USA territory - I really don't want anything to do with the UK or USA or people and systems that would create a bunch of needless problems for others, that's just plain evil).
So back to the holding pattern while I pay down debt. I was in one from the legal changes to freelancing and freelancing felt like borrowed time because as I stated above, the legal changes only meant that people let up on me a bit, that didn't stop people from causing drama. I lost nearly all of my skills in those ten years after graduating so I had to focus on getting some of them back before freelancing. Holding patterns allow for some rest and regrouping. And I can focus on honing my skills. I do hope to have the visual skills to start freelancing again in a slightly different area within the next 18-24 months, but the freelancing won't be as intense as when I was freelancing for a living.
As I stated before taking some time away, I'm going to be backing away from indie horror for a bit while the drama calms down and new additions to the community learn to treat others with respect. That won't really impact releases for 2023 (I'll be formatting the next two shortly) but it will impact releases for 2024 onwards. I haven't seen such as explosion of red flags post-legal changes since the creeps when I was newly single.
I do plan on starting the year focusing more on visual art and hope to finish it focusing on sound. Writing plans for the year mainly involve finishing up We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, which I had started when I was a freelancer so it needs a lot of work. And I also want to do something with Snow White (I still haven't decided how to release it, especially with backing away a bit). Plus some experimental stuff (mainly written for now before going multi-media with it) and some erotica. With We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, the intention was always to go through the traditional publishing route. I obviously really learned how to self publish these last few years (I'll put that up in a year in review soon) but I will be going back to the more traditional publishing routes now that I'm confident and happy with self publishing (just need to hone the skills).
In terms of life, this upcoming year is more of a holding pattern year. I'm going to need to pay off the debt from those ten years I wasn't allowed to work in the field in which I'm qualified to work. So, I can't really do anything exciting or life changing.
Once the debt is cleared, then it is that last problem (the really complex one) gifted to me by people not letting me work in the field I'm qualified to work in (thankfully I have a paper-trail going all the way back to 2007 of me trying to work and family not letting me, which in turn attracted more people who were just the same as my family into my life, it didn't let up until the law changed and even then, it only let up, it didn't stop). All the debt is on a repayment plan already, so nice and set up to start 2023 right. I have obviously started paying back some of it. I'll still have some to pay back into 2024 though. Then once that final problem is clear, I'll be seriously looking into moving abroad (not to a Common Wealth country or a USA territory - I really don't want anything to do with the UK or USA or people and systems that would create a bunch of needless problems for others, that's just plain evil).
So back to the holding pattern while I pay down debt. I was in one from the legal changes to freelancing and freelancing felt like borrowed time because as I stated above, the legal changes only meant that people let up on me a bit, that didn't stop people from causing drama. I lost nearly all of my skills in those ten years after graduating so I had to focus on getting some of them back before freelancing. Holding patterns allow for some rest and regrouping. And I can focus on honing my skills. I do hope to have the visual skills to start freelancing again in a slightly different area within the next 18-24 months, but the freelancing won't be as intense as when I was freelancing for a living.
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