THE REAL REASON I haven’t updated the site every darned day lately, as promised in the header graphic: I’ve been struggling with anxiety over money and related issues.

The gaming-website writing gig that’s kept mealmost meeting expenses these past two years is ending this month. Much pavement-poundin’ has yielded only “opportunities” that, at full-time hours, would earn less than my currently contracted expenses. Apparently, after 12 years of doing nothing but writing, editing, publishing, and creatiing web content for a living, I’m considered underqualified to perform any other “professional” occupation and overqualified to perform most so-called “shit jobs.” Available work within my various fields of expertise, as you might have guessed, spiked up during the dot-com boom but have greatly receded during the recession.

I’ve been loathe to mention this on the site because I never intended this to be a “personal diary” site, and also because I prefer to maintain a positive vibe here, even when discussing downbeat topics.

Nevertheless, I feel compelled at this time to tell y’all this, in hopes one or more of you might be able to help. If you know of any paying gigs in any of the fields you’ve seen work from me in, dispatch an email posthaste.

Also, I continue to ponder business plans by which the print MISC might be made profitable. All the schemes and number-crunches involve either (a) charging a cover price, (b) finding someone who’s a better ad seller than I am, or (c) both of the above. Any thoughts of yours on this conundrum would be most appreciated.