So like, wow. It keeps surprising me how many favorites one little picture can generate when I put it up on my page. I'm still the type of user that wants to personally thank each and every favoriter and watcher and stuff, and there must have been more than thirty to go through just from that latest piece. It gets a little impossible to not find yourself repeating the same few versions of thank you shouts switching in different usernames. Still, given all these favorites for ideas of mine others have drawn, I can't help but wonder how much attention my page would have gotten had I been an artist instead of a writer. I'll never be an artist of course, it just doesn't come naturally to me and must be forced when I draw on my own. It's best to stick to what one is good at, but I do like some variety and once in a while I try to draw something and figure out how to improve if I can. Just some idle thoughts.

If I do draw anything it might be a silly comic making a joke about eating a 'Reader's Digest' book from taking the title too literally. Besides that I still need to fix a piece that's been sitting for more than a year, and I've been touching up and experimenting with coloring on a very old pencil piece that predates any art in my gallery so far.

I had a 52 hour work week this week, and have been far too fatigued mentally to do any writing at all. Next week is 41 hours, and I really hope I get a chance to recover a bit. I've felt down and out for too long and my writing flow has suffered as a consequence. I can't let impossible problems keep dragging me down from doing what I used to like. It would be really nice to get some more stories finished and up, even if only a handful will ever read them.

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A while back I came across a rather different movie that apparently didn't do ery well with the general movie crowd, but still, it was interesting, if weakly acted at points. It was called 'The Isle of Dr. Moreau' and involved lots of part human - part animal creatures. The one that was part hyena got some really good facial closeups with lots of teeth toward the end. :)

Let's see if these newfangled codes and worked out are functional. :)