Hello everyone,

I hope we can build this network as a place for all the people that email me and talk over Twitter and Pownce. I hope you will all enter the Shadows and meet each other. I mean, y'all are just too shy. lol.

My brain aches... and it will for a while longer.  I am a storyteller at heart.  All i want to do it tell my stories in the most compelling ways that i can... so I have set out down the road to learn how do make animation.

By looking at the site and the book, you can see the quality of the images I can and do produce, but the nature of animation is a beast that I have yet to get a hold on.  The hardest part for me has been creating the characters in a way that is compelling and stylized with out loosing any of the life I bring to them through written words.

I am getting better, but I am having to learn a whole new skill set to do this, but I am seeing promise at every step.

So to the future.  Thanks for all your encouragement,

As the clouds roll over head, I can feel them in my mind.  Sounds and shadows... I have been away from the web for a while trying to think up a story to write for June.  I have decided to do a mystery.  A first for me, so it is a real challenge.  The summer blues have firmly taken hold of me... so it is a challenge to get anything done, but I move on.

The major challenge is to decide what the mystery will be about.  It will probably be about a theft or a kidnapping, cause as you all know, I am not a fan of murder mysteries, but I am keeping an open mind.  We will see what I can find as I grope around in the dark corners of my mind.  The cast of characters keeps growing, so I will have to thin them out before I actually start writing.

I must say that the weather is not helping.  The rain relaxes me too much.  The thunder sets me on edge.  The gloom makes me think more about writing another supernatural horror.

When I write, I need stability and routine, and the weather is working against those needs.  Soon, I hope the weather will stabilize, but it looks like another 5 days of this before it all moves through.

I will go light a candle for the weather, another for the story, and another for all of you guys.