Writing again! Got a blogging position and sold a reprint. (Largely about depression)

After getting my MA, I had a bout of solid depression that lasted from realizing I would likely never be in school again until, uh, yesterday. The kind of depression where you don't want to wake up, and you have to justify your own continued survival to yourself before any sort of real undertaking--like, say, washing the dishes.

I'm pretty sure I owe my breakthrough to Bernie Sanders, of all people. Listening to his speeches made me... angry. And hopeful, but mostly angry. Both sensations were, frankly, wonderful, because the constant emotion during depression is numbness. So I started going to Sanders meet-ups and re-engaging on twitter, and writing stuff again, which I hadn't done for years, except the bare minimum needed to keep my comic updating on the regular.

I know it wouldn't be a big deal to most of you, but I got a position at The Contemptor writing op-eds about politics and current events. My first one goes live tomorrow. And then Connie Fang from Xiaoduo Media contacted me about buying reprinting rights for one of my short stories.

Life isn't great, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's really nice getting out of bed with things to look forward to again.

Thanks!

The story is called "Midland City Pizza Palace Seeks Giant to Mash Dough." It's about a giant who learns how to quit his awful job at a pizzeria. It's got several versions in SYW, under Fantasy, I think, if you want to go on a scavenger hunt.