The Pacific Northwest- In Mid-October, Kelly and I took an amazing nine-day journey. We flew to Seattle, and then drove our way down the Pacific coast back to North Hollywood. The trip was AMAZING. We also had an agenda: find a new place to live. We'll be looking to start a family sooner rather than later, and Los Angeles just is not the place for it. Now that we're back, we've been seriously looking into moving to the Portland area within the next six months or so.
Seller's Success- Since we got back, I've moved my focus away from my art to finish another, long-outstanding project: my guide to opening a successful shop on Etsy. I finally finished writing and spent most of Halloween weekend proofreading, formatting it into a very lovely PDF, and posting the item up for sale. You can view it in my Sellers Success Etsy shop here.
Other Creative Pursuits- The Sellers Success guide was my first success in a series of three goals that will bring me through the end of the year:
October: Finish and publish Etsy Guide
November: Finish the first draft of my novel
December: Illustrate my novel.
Yup. I don't know if I've mentioned it here, but I'm currently seventeen chapters into what will be a twenty-one (or so) chapter novel. It's a project I started a loooong time ago, originally as a screenplay, and finally finishing it will be a colossal accomplishment for me.
It's an action-adventure novel, young adult friendly but not necessarily young adult targeted. It'll be about the length of one of the medium-sized Harry Potter novels when I'm done. It will also feature a full-page illustration for every chapter, and I'll probably post some of my ongoing work on those here, once the work is actually ongoing. :)
Holidays- This is my favorite time of year, but it's also like hitting the very bottom of the slide, where you just fly forward and you're on the ground before you even know it's happened. Halloween, Thanksgiving, My birthday, wife's birthday, Christmas, Mother-in-Law's birthday, New Years, ZOOOOOOOOM! Year's over. Between all of that, and my novel, and the other various business odds and ends I'll need to do, I may be fairly silent here until the calendar rolls over to 2011.
Don't stop checking in every once and a while, though. I'm going to try to finish a few more typography pieces before the end of the year, and I might post some illustrations as well, so pop in to say hi every now and again.
What's everyone else's plans for what's left of 2010?
Wow! I can't wait to read your novel. What an amazing accomplishment that will be for you. I'm so proud :)
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