If you look back in the blog history, not sure why you would, but if you do… you would notice that I didn’t blog for several months. The last post I made was on November 2nd last year. I talked last year about routines and how I would do better. Then I didn’t. Then I got to a point where I didn’t want to even when I wanted to because I was a bit upset with myself for not posting for so long. Then someone called me out on it.
So here we are, a new year, a couple months in, and an update. Where did I go? No where. What happened? Life.
Late last year I went to see my primary because an online hit home pretty hard. I always suspected my brain was different, but now it’s officially confirmed. I am an adult who went most of my life with ADHD and didn’t have a good handle on what havoc untreated ADHD can do to your life. I am now taking something for that and I am seeing a lot of improvements in memory and some other focus areas. I am also keeping a BUJO again instead of a big name brand planner so I can have control over my scheduling book and change it when I want a change.
How does this affect my writing though? A lot. If I am not interested, I typically don’t do it. Finding motivation requires a lot more effort and sometimes tricking myself. Have I been writing? Yeah, off and on. I put the Vigilante Queen story aside for now, unfinished. I ended up finding this Writing Prompt on reddit that interested me and wrote a small short for it. That short held my interest and I am now several chapters deep into what was meant to just be a quick short story based on a single small prompt.
If you keep up with any of the social media video sites, people are saying this is the year of the Villain, and this prompt is certainly a Villain or Hero prompt. I choose to follow the Villain instead of the Hero before ever seeing any videos or music coming out for the Villains. Now my playlist is full of Villain inspired music and my current interest is giving this character some love.
As for the Assassin story and editing, so many friends and family keep asking. Yes, I know people want more than what they have seen so far. I will come back to it and edit it and prepare it for Alpha and Beta reading. Please be patient while my brain and I sort out the logistics of finding a way to keep editing interesting for me. If we aren’t friends or family and you do read this stuff and want to know more about that story, reach out.