So people may have noticed (or not ) that I've been relatively less active for the last few months than I normally have been on DeviantArt. Well, my university just told me that they accepted my proposal for a Ph.D. and my Master's advisor just told me that I should be able to finish my Masters in one more semester! So for the next 6 months at least, between work and two degrees, I'm gonna have no time to myself to draw anymore . The though depresses me, but I decided to come up with another project to keep myself from getting too caught up in nothing but school. For the last 9-10 years, I've had ideas flowing through my head about a sci-fi story I'd like to put into writing. However, I've never undertaken anything in writing as large as I'm hoping the story will be and I've never been very good as an English writing student. So to prepare myself, I'm going to start writing another smaller story. Its gonna be a zombie story (another idea I've been thinking of for a couple of years) and I'm hoping writing it will help me flesh out how I need to improve as a writer before I try to take on the sci fi story. Hopefully, some of you will follow it (I'll be posting it here as I write it) and with any luck, other people will discover it and critique it!

Happy Holidays to everyone on DeviantArt!

It seems like only a few days ago, I was lamenting the fact that the combination of full time work and full time Master's degree leaves me very little time to think of new ideas and even less time to actually draw them. Now here I go dropping the Master's in favor of (if I can get it approved) a PhD. The downside seems that the additional work would make it harder still to get some drawing time in, but the upside may be that the lack of additional coursework required might give me just a little bit of time to do something...

Damn...days off cannot come soon enough! I need a long nap!

So, many people may have noticed that I haven't submitted a fresh deviation in a long time and I think most of it comes down to complete lack of motivation. I have a handful of ideas in the process, but have almost no motivation to put any of them down. So I figure, I'll throw out a shout out: Anyone have an idea they'd like to see me try to pursue?

After returning home from work, I finally, got to do what I failed to do before going to work in the first place: spend the better part of the day driving my new Jeep! Yup, I just went all in on a brand new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara and I am very much looking forward to some good off-roading in the near future!

For all the fans of Michael Crichton on this board:

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It looks like, prior to passing away last November, Michael did in fact have a finished novel ready for publication, and we're going to be getting it in November. Not only that, Harper Collins is going to try to publish a second posthumous novel that he was only 1/3 of the way through, by hiring a co-writer to work off of the foundation he has already set and the path that his notes follow!

I was drooling at the prospect of at least one posthumous publication, but 2 is more than I could have dreamed for. Almost makes it feel like he never left us...