Starting now, I need to focus all of my energy on my graphic design career. No, I'm not quitting dA, nor do I want to. I'll still be around, and I will still be just as active as I am now. I will be experimenting with different things in graphics and will more than likely be posting them here frequently.

I have taken on the seemingly impossible task of preparing myself to apply to the most prestigious graphic design school in the country. Jeffcoat is now my mentor and is going to assist me with my transformation into the ideal applicant. It's going to be a lot of reading, interning, and designing.. broadening my design horizons. I'm also rather confident that I've secured a position of Mac Lab Tech for the fall semester.

My reasoning behind this statement, however, is that I am going to end all work on Leaden Legacy. The whole story is planned out, but only about a 1/4 has been written - and that took a year. Within the next month, all LL artwork will be taken down, as well as the story itself. I had already created art for later parts of the story and I may post those excess pictures up for a brief amount of time, and then they will be taken down with the rest. If you care enough to understand what happens in the latter of the story, I will be happy to provide you with a brief summary. The creative process of LL is far too time consuming, considering it is being written collaboratively. Also, my writing style on LL has also been suppressed by my writing partner, who often changed things I had written, and sometimes, as I came to find when I proofread prior to posting on dA, changed things without my consent. That was hurtful. But for the most part, the true versions on my part of the story are the ones that were posted on dA. More than likely, I will not be doing anymore literary collaborations.

A biased writing style is a nasty thing, and I want to be able to write in my own style without someone trying to tell me how to do it or letting other author's styles influence me - I can only develop that style on my own. I'm sorry. This is something that has bothered me for a while. I want to come up with my own ideas.. on my own. I don't want to imitate or even blatantly copy other ideas.

My works, both literary and graphic, will stand alone, because I want to be truly original.

Time is too precious right now for me to waste even a minute on something that cannot possibly benefit my future career.

I will continue work on quilliup, my original story, I have hopes of possible publication someday, and that, obviously, will help my career.

If you made it through all that.. thank you for reading.

EDIT: I am the new lab tech for the fall semester!