{"id":975,"date":"2016-08-31T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=975"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:40:25","slug":"hello-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Hello again."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m born anew \u2014\u00a0or at least attempting such. I don\u2019t mean a half-hearted single post every year or so either. I mean a full-fledged rise from the ashes with a return to posting regularity and a wary embrace of the public.<\/p>\n

I hid for a long while because life got hard and things got personal. Circumstances changed enormously. I got lost for a while and lacked direction, but I kept moving because at least I had my work.<\/p>\n

And then my work began to die off\u2026<\/p>\n

Publishers closed, and assignments grew scarce. Competition grew, and everyone I mentored surpassed me. The market isn\u2019t what it used to be \u2014 the bubble\u2019s bursting, and I\u2019m just one of far too many. So for the last year I\u2019ve tried to get back to a day job situation, but after freelancing full-time for so long, I\u2019ve lost my competitive edge. Despite the abundance of talent, skills, and experience I know I have, no job worth having and keeping was offered to me.<\/p>\n

Forever passed before I had an epiphany, sparked by my very late discovery of an actor and comedian whose rise to fame and maintenance of it was all due to a very active internet presence, from back when the internet was new, to now. It made me remember that\u2019s how I got my career, too. It made me realize how much of that I\u2019d dropped and left behind. Perhaps blogging and tweeting again, reaching out to those craving good content, can help me get back on track. I\u2019ve got so much in me to share, and I won\u2019t know until I try.<\/p>\n

So here I am. I make small changes everyday, but I\u2019ll get there \u2014 back to the trail that leads out of the dark woods and toward civilization. I need to make a living, after all, and I can\u2019t do that peddling my services to wildlife; I need to reach out to people.<\/p>\n

Those who have read and followed me before and are still around \u2014\u00a0who have pointed out my creativity, humor, and mad Photoshop skills \u2014 I\u2019m still the same person I was; I just hid it all from public view for a while because the world is a scary place which sometimes overwhelms me, and people can be weird and creepy. All I ask is that you watch this space.<\/p>\n

I plan to fill it.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I\u2019m born anew \u2014\u00a0or at least attempting such. I don\u2019t mean a half-hearted single post every year or so either. I mean a full-fledged rise from the ashes with a return to posting regularity and a wary embrace of the public. I hid for a long while because life got hard and things got personal. Circumstances changed enormously. I got lost for a while and lacked direction, but I kept moving because at least I had my work. And then…<\/p>\n

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