Good afternoon, Steemit. I’m in bed. Yes. Right now. So many of my beloved Steemians are beginning to share their photos from SteemFest and I’m jealous. It looks like such a wonderful occasion. Each year, since the inaugural SteemFest, there have been obstacles that’ve kept me from attending. Usually financial, but in 2017 when I actually had the money […thanks, Steemit], I had shoot commitments in LA that were iron clad. I’m back to the financial constraints, and even though I can’t be at the party, it’s nice to see so many faces I follow, together, celebrating the blockchain.
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I’m contemplating how disruptive this decision really is, even in the not-so-relevant areas of my life. Typically, I’d be grinding away in the Photoshop mines for hours during the day. Once I finished editing around midnight, I’d share some of those recently completed images in a blog post here on Steemit. You can check the timestamp when most of my blogs are posted and see that. Here I am, now at 1:00p.m., writing and publishing on Steemit. I think afternoon Steemit posts could potentially become my daily warm up. That’s a new idea, and pretty exciting!
I’m thinking a lot about this. It’s scary, but it doesn’t seem impossible. For my friends that work at Wells Fargo, the idea of walking away from that job and deciding to be a professional writer…that must seem impossible. I’ve been a freelancer for a decade now. It’s always hard, but I know it to be realistic as an achievable career. I’m living a free life, I’m just trying to change my medium. Comics is still something I want to do, more than anything, but I’ve distilled what I love about comics down to storytelling. That’s what I want to do the most.
My comic skills are still developing, both in my ability to tell stories in a sequential, visual form, and speed. Speed is the thing that holds me back the most, so I’m conceding that until those stills are polished and I’m a more efficient artist, I’m going to pour these stories in to a novel. One of which, my “baby” so to speak, is entirely based on a near future blockchain-centric world. Near future, meaning five to ten years from now. Some of the ideas I came up with in 2016 are already beginning to happen, so it isn’t something I can afford to sleep on.
So, here I am. Getting my warm up in. Maybe the start to a new routine, which I’m excited about. No idea how it will evolve but I love the idea of a transition from tireless grinding work, editing photos for 12 or more hours straight, to more “thoughtful” work. Creative time spend pretending and imagining entire worlds and the people that inhabit them. Going in to 2020, my two requirements for anything I do is to both own the platform, and spend time on something that’ll bring me passive income. Thanks for reading. I’m off to the Scrivner mines now […for a change]!