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I know it's been a REALLY long time since I've been here. I just came back to find over 1000 updates and an albino llama on my page. Thanks for all the llamas and watches and stuff. I've just been busy trying to make things happen in my life. I've been chipping away at multiple writing projects, trying to put out a book for children (specifically children around 9-13 years old - but I'm trying to write in a way that adults can enjoy it too. I recently re-read James and the Giant Peach and didn't like it nearly as much as I did when I was in school).
- I have an author tumblr now at melindafisher.tumblr.com/
- I'm thinking about cleaning out my gallery and getting rid of all the 'old art' (maybe even the stamps - but I see that some of them are really popular)
- Art and drawing has been on hold for a while. I've gotten a bit rusty in the actual artwork department. My skills have been maintained mainly through drawing sessions on Posemaniacs or this website
- I might be continually appearing and disappearing from here as I work on my projects, but this year I'm going to focus on working both faster and smarter.
Personal Update - COVID Experience
I have been incredibly fortunate with COVID-19 and the lockdown in my area. It's been emotionally taxing, but I could have been much worse off. The most inconvenient thing to happen to me during this time is every public place closing and the supermarkets temporarily suspending online grocery shopping (which was through March and April); and I guess huge delays in package deliveries, since everyone's buying their stuff online now. While I naturally spend a lot of time at home, mostly cleaning, I haven't been able to go out and walk around even once a week because of this pandemic. A few months of that and I start to wonder if I'm still sane. Luckily, because Australia has acted quickly on this, the restrictions are now slowly easing. Our state borders opened and then closed again when a second wave started. Victoria has had trouble keeping infections down and has gone back into a stage 3 lockdown because some people there just wouldn't self-quarantine when they were
Eclipse Thoughts
Sorry I've been gone so long. I haven't been posting anything in ages, but I have been checking up on my messages here, so nothing has gone unread. While I am sad to see the old DA interface go, I am slowly getting used to Eclipse. I see now that the website interface did need an overhaul and some of these new features make sense. The new chat feature might be very convenient. And I am extra glad that the paginated scrolling is now working, as well as a search function. I was getting worried about forced endless scrolling. What I'm really afraid of is DeviantArt becoming like Twitter or YouTube or Pinterest, where you get addicted to browsing because of constant recommendations and endless scrolling. That's partly why I moved away from those networks. With the way they are designed, I felt like part of my brain was shut off whenever I visited them. Without the DF YouTube add-on for Firefox, it's like I lose control of my browsing on YouTube and waste so much time and energy. Really
Reasons for Inactivity (long entry)
I'm not sure how to structure this. I know I haven't posted anything up in a while and I've been saying that so many times.
2016 has been a pretty rough year for me. It started off great and then things happened. My grandparents started deteriorating. And I started getting unfocused on what I really wanted to do with my life.
For the first few months I wasn't posting any art because I was busy writing children's chapter books. I was trying to write in a way that kids could understand, but the writing didn't feel 'dumbed down' so older people could enjoy the stories too. Actually I was just trying to write in a way that I'd like to read. I h
Author Website
First an IRL update. I'm working voluntarily creating maps for charity organisations. It's not paid work, but at least it's graphic design. They liked the last one I did so much that I'm starting another one now, but I come home from the work feeling so tuckered out that all I feel like doing is flopping down on the couch and watching Penguins of Madagascar. It's been so long since I've had time to draw anything. If it wasn't for gesture drawing exercises I'd be getting more than a little rusty.
A little while ago I bought hosting for a website to start an AUTHOR PLATFORM using Wordpress. My grand plan is to write and illustrate chapter book
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