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Tl;dr: I’m stopping commissions (except for ongoing commissions) in favor of Jack’s Blacks prompts. If no prompts come, well, I’ve got a number of my own to work on. A week before the start of 2023, I listened to an audiobook that described the difference in intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators. Without going into great detail,…
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Another year is beginning to close out, and I like to try every year to list the things I’m thankful for. I figure that I might as well post it here so that I can share with others (for those who actually read these things). I have to admit that I’m struggling more this year…
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So, I dutifully tried my hand at Kindle Vella. For those who aren’t familiar, you create stories and then release them one chapter (“episode”) at a time. So, I created the story, included the more controversial themes that would be included, and submitted it. They don’t make it go live until you publish your first…
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Update 2022-07-26: Nope! Hey, guys. So, I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on here before (though I did mention it on IB since I seem to get more traffic there), but Amazon has come out with a new writing service called “Vella”. Basically, I write and publish chapters individually rather than as a complete story,…
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Hey, all. It occurred to me as I was posting the notice about The Service that it’s been a long time since I last posted an update. I think I’m due. So, let’s see… Work is going well. Very well. I became full-time in March and have recently been designing circuits again, setting up Jira…
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Hey, all. I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted—things have been super hectic lately (but in a good way). But, I wanted to let everybody know that I’m waiting for Amazon to approve the latest Jack’s Blacks installment: “The Service”. Here’s the synopsis: Tobias is the model student: athlete, scholar, volunteer, musician,…
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Hey, all. Just dropping a quick note to say that I’ve been working on an app that will let me just about 100% automate the non-writing aspects of my commissions (exporting to Word / PDF, invoicing, sending to clients, and posting online). To that end, the easiest way to address the interface to WordPress is…
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Hey, all. Excited to say Amazon published another Jack’s Blacks installment this morning, The Family Business, in which the protagonist is from a family of stallions long-rumored to be immune to the village curse, which periodically makes males feel the desperate urge to bottom for other stallions. You can find it here. I also created…
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A terrible product idea: nostril epilator. A great novel idea: Moby’s Dick, the tragic tale in which Moby ghosts Captain Ahab after an amazing night of passion, and Captain Ahab, unable to get that intensely satisfying fullness any other way, vows that he will have that whale inside him again—dead or alive. Sorry, sorry: that’s…
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My friend died of COVID today. One of only two other furries I know in my tiny, tiny town, he died this morning, one day short of two weeks after his brother died of it. I had been helping his family moving hay bales in my friend’s and his brother’s absence, and his mom has…
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I quit my job the day before yesterday. Well, to be more accurate, I quit my job two weeks ago, and yesterday was my last day. It’s been seven years that I’ve worked at this job, doing work I really dislike, and I have at last found a role with another company that will let…
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Things have been hard lately. But, I think I might have stumbled on something today that might provide a framework for making things better. I canceled my Netflix and HBO Max subscriptions. I’ve had the former for years and years…at a minimum, the duration of BoJack Horseman (7 years), but maybe even longer. I canceled…
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Hi, all. Effective immediately, I will not be taking any more commissions. Apologies to those on the waiting list, but after struggling off and on for years with burnout, it’s time I faced the fact that I’m not getting the spark back that I had in 2018. I’m thankful to everybody who’s put their trust…
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Hey, all. Just a quick update since things are going well: I’ve been chugging along with my commissions and have made it through all of my new commissioners as of yesterday night. I’ll be starting the repeat customers probably today or maybe tomorrow (gotta go into work today, so that adds a couple of hours…
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It occurs to me that I should probably actually announce my books as I publish them rather than just updating the list. So, here’s to starting that trend! I’ve begun the submission process for Jack’s Blacks volume 7: Raw Material Collection.Theme: Assisted masturbationSynopsis: The world is at war, and and since drilling for oil was…
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I’ve been fascinated by the thought of direct air capture and have watched a few videos on it, but inevitably, they always come back to pumping CO2 underground, and I can’t help think to myself: What a waste—there are so many products we use that have high carbon content; why not use that carbon for…
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So, I’m finally posting commissions again, which is a big step up over the last several months. That said, I’ve amassed a bit of a backlog—people who asked me about commissions while I was on hiatus—and I’m trying to work that off. I’ve currently got 5 people left in the queue, so if you’ve talked…
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Phew, what a whirlwind it’s been since my last post! I had thought that things would slow down once the tiny house got here, but it turns out there was just more work to be done once it did! My dad and I got the electrical hooked up, and I got the water hooked up.…
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The election has been called for Biden, and for that I’m grateful and relieved. However, the closeness of the election has given me pause. A big pause. I have never liked Trump, and it’s not because I’m anti-conservative. I lean fiscally conservative myself. What I dislike about him is his divisiveness, the rude and disparaging…
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The last six or so weeks have been, in a word, insane. I paid off the land and then promptly ended up in the hospital for five days with diverticulitis. While that was not “enjoyable”, it did light a fire under my ass to get out of the camper. I was lying there on the…
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