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The Shepherd’s Inn

At the end of 2019 I began taking Voice Acting classes, and have continued to do so ever since. I’ve auditions for many roles, hoping to find a spot on an animated series. Most of my work so far have been in “radio drama” and audio story telling (not necessarily audio books).

A year before I took my first acting class, I recorded a story Christmas story I had written myself. Looking back, I know I could do much better on the acting, and probably will do another recording of the story.

That said, I would like to let you listen to it here.

This story is based on Chapter 2 vs 17-18 of the Gospel of Luke. As the Shepherds describe what they have just encountered.

The Shepherd’s Inn:

Hair Today – Do I dare?

To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—

From the poem
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
by T.S. Eliot

When I sit down at my computer, either to write, draw, or to apply for jobs (I’m blessed with a contract job currently), I often have the TV running. Most often it’s just white noise. If it’s anything more I don’t get any work done. I’m sure you’ve had that experience.

Apologies 11/16/2025

Hi, All,

I apologize to everyone that has been reading my blog, I have missed several weeks of posts since I began my new job. I’ve been very busy and my time has been limited. That is no excuse for not completing what I promised at the start of the year to post at least one blog per week.

It’s Spooky Time

With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we are being inundated with monster movies and ghost stories. This year I get to add my own Voice to the stories of things that go bump in the night.

I just can’t stop Smiling

I just completed the first week of a new job, and I just can’t stop smiling about it.
This is only a three-month temp contract position, but it is making me very happy.
Let me tell you a story.

I got a Job!

Hi All,

Sorry I’m late with this blog, by several days.

I’ve been busy with several things, most of all preparing for a potential job opportunity.

Well, that job opportunity turned into an actual job, which I’ll be starting next Monday.

I can’t tell you much about it, maybe next week I can tell you where I work, but let’s just say I’ve been there before and I am very happy to be back. Even if it isn’t where I want to be. (Does that make any sense what so ever?)

Since the start of this year, I’ve applied to over 600 job openings. Which resulted in 1 interview.
I did have a two-day temp job, which was really fun. I blogged about it previously.

This new job also came through an employment agency and is only temporary, but it is schedule to last three months until the end of the year. So that is good news.

On top of that it isn’t too far away from home either, so there is no ghastly long commutes on the freeways.

Again, apologies for a very very late blog. Hopefully I’ll have more interesting news to tell you in a few days.

Thank you for all the support and the prayers. It was felt.

Kevin

Finding Characters

As mentioned in previous posts, I have been an artist all my life. I began to learn to draw from studying comic books, eventually taking art classes in high school and then in college and university.

But the most important place to learn, and to learn practically anything, is in life.

Especially when it comes to character and costume design.

I am so far behind.

This blog post proves it.

With the stress of the job search, and everything else going on in the world right now, (A lot of which has indirect connections to my job search, but I won’t go into that) it’s hard to come up with something of interest to write about

Let me tell you about a game that I’ve been playing for the last couple of years (or more, I can’t remember now).

Casting a Blog

Hi all,

I began this blog at the start of the year by doing a series of posts as part of an assignment for Toastmasters. That went on for a couple of months, and I’ve kept the blog going consistently ever since (well, other than missing a day here and there like tonight).

My next Toastmasters speech will be based on a blog I wrote a few weeks ago, about whether Yield Signs are necessary or not. What do you think? I’ll be giving that speech in a couple of weeks. Should be fun.

Thoughts on Fan Fiction

I suppose, I am a Brony.

As mentioned previously, I began my creative exploits in art, I wanted to be a comic book artist. Drawing super heroes; my dream job would have been to draw the All-Star Squadron off of Roy Thomas’ scripts.

At the start I hadn’t thought about writing my own stories, but it wasn’t long before I realized that art, whether it be in comic books or not, was all about telling stories.

The first actual story I remember writing, was based off of a dream, which in turn was based off of the Transformers animated series… no actually in the dream it was characters out of GoBots (which I didn’t watch a lot of). What I actually wrote, which was absolutely terrible in the end, became a story about enemy aliens fighting a war here on earth, but only experiencing life as humans, did they find a way to come together in peace.

I didn’t write any comic book related stories until Junior High School as part of a class. I wrote a Secret Origin story for a couple characters I called “The Aqua Sister”. The teacher liked it, but nothing much came from it. Though over the years I have developed it into something else, a Lovecraft like story, that one of these days I will actually write the full story. The teacher liked another story I wrote at that time, which is a lot closer to the type of stories I write today, but that’s for another day.

Along with comic books, I also enjoyed animations. Very rarely did I come up with an animation-based story that I jotted down and turned into an actual story. Most of what I did amounted to a couple pages of notes.

During this time I was writing a long story about detectives and aliens. There was a lot to it, but I’ve put it away from now. Though the characters live on in other stories I’ve written.

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