05 March 2007 - Posts

February What's New Log

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February 2007. Problems with Donations page now fixed.

Incredible few weeks. Two months in Newcastle after my father died. Since coming back to Bristol I've been on creative overdrive and now, abruptly, many of my babies are bursting into reality. Had a surreal experience last Friday after a courier delivered a package. Inside was God Seed and Dante's Fool. Finally, after over 10 years of sweat, effort and sacrifice, I was sitting in a room staring at my work in flesh and printing ink. Progressing well with Yellow Dawn 2nd Edition: secured a professional illustrator for the internal artwork. MOOD: creative bliss.

Return On Investment

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It's Monday and Jo's just left for work. I'll be doing that soon. Which is frustrating because I'm 25% into Yellow Dawn 2nd edition and what I want is to be able get on and finish it; however, I've spent the past 11 months on a creative bliss-trip, living on my savings...and they're nearly gone...and completing several major pieces. So I'm pulling a sour face (childish) because I'm being forced to head out from my cave and go find a job.

Had an interesting conversation with Jo last night about money. We had totally different attitudes to what money is for. In my world, if I get a lump sum, that means the ability to step out of the 9-5 distraction, and be free to spend serious lengths of time completing creative projects. In other words, the money gets burned up providing living expenses whilst I write / create.

Such a lump sum is not on the horizon right now so the conversation was hypothetical.

Which leads me to my internal acknowledgement of return on investment. I had a conversation with a friend last week about the amount of my life I've dedicated to my writing. Not just time, but sweat and tears. I worked out that to break even on my investment so far, my creative products need to net me 1.2 Million GBP. The sooner this starts coming in the happier I'll be. *smiles*

Anyways, thanks for reading, and...ahem, don't ignore the donations box by the door. *cheeky grin*

http://www.davidjrodger.com/donation.htm

Peace

Djr