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by JohnDurvin » January 19th, 2013, 11:04 pm
Personally, first I moved to Atlanta, then I've been looking for jobs. I had really hoped that moving to a bigger city would help matters, but no...not really. There's a lot more openings, but there's also a lot more applicants, and I gotsta get paid--or rather, the bills do. So for the moment, I'm almost 30, I've got a BFA Cum Laude, and tomorrow morning I start my first day making minimum wage at a pet store.
As for my writing, I've been holding off on doing any actual writing until my web-comic wraps up, but that's only got a few weeks left. In the meantime, I've mentioned before how much I love world-building; I've been steadily working on the world of my YA fantasy-based-on-American-folklore series, and it's getting up to Rowlingesque levels of detail. I've named fictional novelists and written menus; the latest project was putting together a cult running out of a ruined museum, whose prophet's rantings are a mash-up of Alistair Crowley, various turn-of-the-century Apocalyptic cult leaders, Francis E. Dec, Time Cube, and Scientology--plus Charles Guiteau, the guy that shot President Garfield for not appointing him Ambassador to France. There's a lot this detail that probably won't show up in the finished project, but I like having it there anyway.
Everybody loves using things as other things, right? Check out my blog at
the Cromulent Bricoleur and see one hipster's approach to recycling, upcycling, and alterna-cycling (which is a word I just made up).