Moving slowly

Well, things are moving slowly with all of my projects. Comic work is moving along slowly, as well as work on Junkyard Whores.

Junkyard Whores is getting really interesting, but I've hit a wall. I'm at a point in the story where a father is burning the corpse of a young man who had the hots for his daughters. It's a good part in the story, (and kind of gory) but now I'm not sure where in the hell to go.

In other news, in my previous post I mentioned the article that I wrote about the small boy who saved his mom's life by dialing 911 while she was choking on a chip. Well, they were flown to Chicago for free and appeared on the Steve Wilkos show. For those of you who don't know, Steve Wilkos was the bald security guard on the Jerry Springer show. I'm really glad I could give that little boy his 15 minutes of fame, even if he won't remember it.

Time to go sleepy and get up in the morning and continue to paint, write, draw, and work on the other 200 projects I've got going.

No Credit?

Recently I wrote an article at work about a 5 year old boy who dialed 911 when his mother was choking on a chip. The police showed up and gave the mother the heimlich. The boy is credited with saving his mom's life.

I work for a small newspaper. It's not like the big boys at the New York Times. The Associated Press (AP) picked up my story and cut it in half, and now the story about a five year old boy is everywhere. It's on ABC and CBS news, the Miami Herald, the New York Times. And just to name a few other papers and websites that have picked it up include, Boston, Kentucky, Philadephia, Chicago, Rapid City, and the list goes on. All you have to do is google the five year olds name which is Mathew Rissler.

I'm only putting his name on here so you can actually read the story, because it's actually pretty interesting and heart-warming. When you read the story on the net you will see the story is really short. My original story was longer.

I guess at first I was upset that my story was picked up by the AP and of course my name wasn't on it. But that's the AP and they can do that. But now I'm realizing that my story is getting read by millions and I can take some comfort in knowing that those millions of people wouldn't even know the story of a five year old boy saving his mother's life by dialing 911 if it wasn't for me; even if I don't get credit.

Maybe with journalism it's better to sit back in the shadows and let the actual hero, which is the five year old boy, to have the center stage. I just have to realize that with being a journalist I won't always get credit and not everyone will like what I write.

I just have to remember what my editor said to me, or at least what I think he said, "Don't let it get in the way of your creative juices."

Maybe he's right. I should keep on writing and doing my job the best I can.

Checking in

Well, thankfully it's the weekend. Finally get to spend some time on some much neglected work. I have a few paintings that are nearing completion.

I'm also going to work on my novel, Junkyard Whores. I haven't even touched it for four days. I'm guessing I should have it done by the end of Feb. I'm liking it so far, but I know I'm going to have a hell of a time editing it. But, honestly, doesn't the title just sound awesome?

Okay, maybe not awesome, but it does catch your attention. If you want to know what it's about, just ask me...or maybe I'll describe in a later blog...

Other than that, I'm still searching for a place to host an art show. I was wanting to hold it in the middle of March, but with the way things are going it looks more like sometime in April..GRRR...

Anyways the painting above and below were a couple of images I was going to show. Comment me and let me know what you think.

Time to go and pencil a few comic pages and then it's off to bed!