This entire last year I've been (and still am) undergoing a severe spiritual crisis, during
which I've undergone severe and continuing finical hardship, had to flee a violently abusive situation,
and it's only speaking with the clergy (who I am still working with the get enough help to end this crisis), that
I am barely returning to some of my favorite creative activities.
For anyone who doesn't know me in person I'd rather not go into detail, partly because what happened
to me would sound both crazy and terrifying, however the fall out from what occurred
has prompted me to start a new section of articles that I'll be calling the Nearly Starving
Artist which will be a section about how artists who haven't made it big yet (and yes so can
non-artists) can limit there chances of starving.
Traditional advice is of course to get a job, but for people (including artists) who are
disabled and can't really do that, or have some other reason that's not viable, or who
have taken that advice and still are having a hard time making ends meet it's a section
that's actually about the art & science of stretching
the dollars you do have, and can get when you do sell some artwork,
but can also help non-artists as well. This doesn't solve every problem there is, because unfortunately some
advice I would myself have happily followed is actually advice that I've not always been able
to afford to take.
For anyone who hasn't figured this out from the sheer number of space pictures I have posted, yes
I am a geek and the funny thing about giving a geek a math problem where the way the numbers add
up is a problem unto itself not having a good solution tends to drive them crazy.
In all honesty I thought pretty much everyone knew about the savings tricks that I have been known
to use, so not shockingly I was shocked when I started having an increase in run-in's this last year
with people who didn't seem to understand about them. Don't get me wrong a lot of people do know
them, and I know other people who wouldn't use them even if they knew about them, and I've known still
others who could live reasonably well without seeking savings deliberately but are still happy to get
a good price on what they want or need. But for those that don't, those are the people I'm really
starting the Nearly Starving Artist section for.
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