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I wasn't sure whether to say anything, I dont post in the forum much, but I read it daily and, well, Renderosity has been a huge part of life for the last four years or so, I wanted to say something. This is my last image for sometime, I need to go away for a while and simply write. I have reached an impass, my writing is non-existent, stunted and overshadowed by my Poser images, took a while for me to admit it. But when I get stuck writing, I crank open Poser because its easier, quicker. I'm missing the writing and it's killing me inside, I didn't realise it until last week when something quite profound kicked me in the backside. It's difficult to explain, certainly very personal to me, but there you are. I haven't written like I used to for about two or three years now, I used to be better, more driven about it. I shall come back, when I've got what's in my head out and I can balance it better. But keeping Poser around is too tempting, too easy for me, not to mention bloody expensive :-) It is now uninstalled, my insane runtime folder backed up. Personal thanks must go to Moebius and Wusumah, whom have been instrumental with their products, friendship, insight and inspiration in what I have produced. See you later some way down the road Best wishes Jody

Good luck to you and hope your writing gets you back to where you want to be mentally.

Jarm, Good to see someone following "their" artistic drives to create/express the inner self in ways that give "them" fulfillment. Blessings on Your Trip, Strixowl :-)

You have to follow your own star. Sorry to see you go but pleased you have a handle on what makes you tick. All the very best to you.

It is amazing what an addictive, life consuming piece of software Poser can be. I hope your writing is much more satisfying. :) Beth

Yes Beth, you don't know how close to the mark you are :-)

I know the situation...Being a painter, I spend less time with my brushes and pencils than before, but at least I'm closer to painting with Poser than you as a writer. It does cost a lot of money, agreed, but I guess that once you are "installed", the wild mountain stream will become a calm river. With some rapids, agreed.
Anyway: good luck to you, and never ever stop believing in your talent. Perhaps one day, when things have settled down and the inner lake is once again clear and limpid, you'll discover that both can work together... I just visited a part of your gallery. Some simple browsing. Now I am speechless. I was about to delete what I wrote above, but I don't. I wrote without knowing. You know that both images and writing can go together. To be honest: your world is very serious, even a tad pessimistic (remember Auden: Put the car back. If life fails, what's the use of going to Wales?) but your images make me silent. I cannot see them without feeling my own vibration change and find resonance with what you show. Frightening. I still wish you luck. As much as before, but I ask you not to delete your gallery. I'll need lots of time to assimilate it all...

Thanks for the kind comments Aeneas, the gallery is not going, just going on hiatus for a while. My writing and images do go together, but in the last year or so, my writing has suffered because of it. I just looked myself, didn't realise I'd done so many...wow.

I'd dome so many...now I know what was in the back of my mind: Unreal City. Remember? "Under the brown fog of a winter dawn a crowd flowed over London Bridge. So many...I hadn't thought death had undone so many...Sight short and infrequent were exhaled, and each man fixed his eyes before his feet, went up the hill and down King William's Street, to where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours with a crack at the final stroke of nine..." etc etc. (TS Eliot) That's the atmosphere.

Hi, well I'm in the same position as you. I've hardly written anything since I discovered poser. But I'm too hooked to put it down. Love esther

best of luck Jody :) We'll have lots of new toys waiting for you when you get back into it -Stefan

best of luck Jody mate :) i look forward to seeing more of your writing. stu

Cheers, jody! :o) It's a tough choice to make between two passions. In my humble opinion, the successful synthesis of your writing and your digital art is something very rare to come by. It has been a real inspiration to my craft (as a modeler) to view your work... it's spurred soooo many of my own projects. Thank you for that, my friend. :o) I certainly respect your decision to take a sabbatical from renders, but I will certainly keep an eye open for anything new that pops up here. Hope you find your literary muse, and please do hurry back. Cheers! M