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The anthology of my daily life. |
| I have started a million blogs, and I have failed at keeping up on 999,999 of them. I'm hoping that this one sticks, but in all likelihood, I will instead delete this after realizing, full of shame, that I haven't updated it in three months. |
| I've hesitated when it comes to writing for too long. Either I feel like I'm not good enough, or inspiration is in short supply, or SOMETHING happens and I can't bring myself to write. I don't really believe in New Year's resolutions, but I feel like I'm at a major turning point. I have to commit to being the writer and artist I've always dreamed of being, or I have to lay down my brushes and pens. I can't continue in this ridiculous cycle of creative self-sabotage any longer. |
| I did it. During NaNoWriMo, I finished the first draft of my first book. After nearly 20 years of writing this story...it's done (ish). I've started and stopped this story so much over the past few decades that I doubted I'd ever finish it. It's not that it's a particularly complicated story; it's a fiction mashup of romance, action, suspense, drama and probably comedy? It's a big messy story, that's what it is. It took me a long time to write it because, like me, the story had to evolve over time. The characters, their mannerisms, their morals..me..we all had to grow and learn before the story could make any sense. In many ways, I was writing this story as a way to deal with abuse and trauma in my life and until I could process it myself, it wasn't possible for me to write the conclusion to the story. It's a strange feeling, seeing the first draft of my book printed and ready for a lot of red marks during the editing process. I know that I'll grow even more while I edit...and so will my characters. |
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