Well... here we are and here we go!

I got an email the week before Christmas (2025) confirming that the class substitution I needed to meet all my degree requirements was approved, so... it's official: your girl is a Commercial Music graduate!!

For whatever it's worth.

Which -- let's be honest -- on paper, as a piece of paper isn't worth much. No sane artist is gonna hire me sound-unheard because I have a degree (and a certificate!) and there is an infinite number of great musicians and producers without music degrees. So what was the point? Well, initially, it was just to get out of the house - to, personally, feel a little less useless and get a little more social interaction. When I think back now, I honestly can't remember if I had any real thoughts/intentions about getting a degree, which means I probably definitely did not. (So in hindsight -- thank Jod, I didn't find a job during the first semester because I probably definitely would have gone back into the grind.)

A lot of things will only make sense in hindsight.
You have to do the next part for the last part to make sense.

Ultimately, the having a degree part of getting this degree will be the least important part of the whole experience, but the experience??? -- 😮‍💨 -- The experience was golden. And the point.

I learned so much about so many things I wasn't even thinking about and may never have run across had I not been spending 3 to 4 days a week at the local community college. What began an endeavor to kill time while waiting on capitalism, has led to me venturing even farther away from it and even deeper into the waters of independent artistry.

So I'm out here. Stepping up to:

• Offer my services as a mixing and mastering engineer (scary).

• Start the creative collective I've been envisioning...

So here we are. And this is:

StoryShares
A creative collective built to support the practice of making art.

I hate capitalism. In general, and very specifically in how it has co-opted and corrupted art.

Capitalism kills art.
And makes us accomplices 
by training us to focus on convincing gatekeepers 
"This story can be sold." 
instead of trusting ourselves to know 
"This story must be told."

I don't believe life is supposed to be hard. I don't believe any of us were born to do work we don't enjoy and/or don't want to do for money. None of us were created to chase something man-made and manufactured. You are obviously free to disagree. And to keep that opinion to yourself and stay in your struggle.

This is my space and if you're not supportive, you don't have to be here.

StoryShares is for artists who are looking for encouragement/prompts/ideas/materials/other artists to work with and for the "regular-degulars" who want to support them.

WATCH is for folks who want to see and support creative work and help make more of it possible.
Join WATCH to see and support produced works.

WITNESS is for folks who want to WATCH and also see/support a little more.
Join WITNESS to go behind-the-scenes for notes, process reflections, bloopers, etc.

WEAVE is for artists who want to WATCH, WITNESS and practice with StoryTell material.
Join WEAVE to receive monthly DIY StoryTell scene kits - scripts, sheet music (if applicable), etc... to be used for practice and production.

WEAVE+ is for artists who are (or want to be) actively making and circulating work.
Join WEAVE+ for access to faster-turn content - ideas/prompts/scripts/etc - open-use material intended for adaptation, distribution and circulation.

TL;DR:

StoryShares is space I am making to honor the practice and process of storytelling —
a place to be, to WATCH, WITNESS and WEAVE folklore of the future.

Things shared here might help you make it in the industry, or (even better) might help make you into one. So... as I said at the beginning:

Welcome to StoryShares.
Here we are. And here we go!