Inspiration is a fickle thing.
It successfully avoided me for the past year and a half, and brought any sort of creative activity to a halt. Try what I may, any idea that I might have had during that time vanished into thin air the moment I attempted to shape something from it. Maybe it was lack of encouragement. Or a too noisy inner critique who enjoyed kicking me in the ribs while I was already down. I don't know. I just never quite managed to step past my own shadow and show at least a little courage.

But there's change in the air and I'll hang on to that breeze and see where it takes me. So here it is. A new DeviantART account, a new name and a new objective.

To begin properly.. how about a round of Woohoo! for two friends of mine? They've gotten a slice of their dream come true and proven that it is possible.

Keep climbing you two



... has won a national moving image" competition with his machinima piece "Project Indigo". I can't really explain just how happy I felt for him when he let me know.
Keep it up Will, I did tell you you have what it takes, right?





... is amongst the Winners of the offical "The Witcher" Fan Fiction contest. It irritates me to no end that I can't read it since I haven't finished the game yet and thus need to avoid spoilers. Argh! But enough of the self pitty--I'm glad you kept going, Rhian. You know you deserved it.





--me