After what feels like a year without writing (more like four months), I'm starting up again. Apart from that, I now have an art mentor. That mean's I'm learning to sketch from life, and not just draw from photographs. Although, at this point my sketches still suck too much to post on DA.

I recently got a new camera--Nikon D90--and I'll put photos up here if I ever get the time. I have a large collection of flower photos, believe it or not. I don't have a macro lens, but I'm making due. I'm also planning on taking some more urban landscape photos. I love checking out old/interesting buildings. I just need to find some worth exploring (or sneaking into) around town.

For the writing, I need some inspiration to get the creativity flowing again. That's something that's been lacking of late. I came up with about ten story ideas. I just need to get started on them, and I find that anything longer than, oh, three pages starts to feel a bit overwhelming. It's easy to write a lot of random words, but not so easy to fix them.

As for the motivation, maybe I just need to drink more coffee. People keep telling me to wake up earlier; maybe that will help.