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Writing Meetings are back! And other updates...

To anyone going "What the hell is a writing meeting?" (which might be one person lol), allow me to explain. When my bestie Jaime and I were writing the Midnight Daze series together, we would meet once or twice a month to work on it in person. Well, we stopped doing that when we stopped writing together, obviously. Technically it fell by the wayside before that, but the point is, we had stopped meeting in person to discuss our writing. Until last month. That's when Jaime had the awesomest idea--we could start meeting again, not to work on MD together, but to just talk about our individual writing projects, bounce ideas off each other, and read through The Artist's Way  by Julia Cameron, doing some of the exercises. Just reigniting our creative sparks and encouraging/supporting each other in our writing endeavors. So that's what we did. And it has been SO fucking cool so far. We've only done two meetings, but those two meetings were so much fun, and they have ...

Paracosms vs. "Maladaptive Daydreaming"

Before I get into this, wow! I just saw that my last post has a comment on it! I'm so sorry I didn't see it till now, but thank you to that person! As you can tell by how long it's been since my last post, I have still been struggling a lot to get back into my writing. Progress has been extremely slow, but I think the ice has finally started breaking for me these past few weeks. On Friday, I watched a video that taught me a new word: paracosm . It's a fictional world you create for yourself that over time becomes your way of coping with reality. You filter your daily stresses and experiences through the lens of that paracosm to help you process things and deal with the harshness of life.  The video  was about Audra Winter, a 22-year-old autistic writer who caused a huge uproar in the writing community when she self-published the first book in a series she's been "writing" since age 12. She'd been marketing herself like crazy for the past few years, hyp...

WRITER RESET TAKE 3!

 Ok, so it's probably more like 3.56789, but who cares at this point? It's pretty much just me here. If anyone actually reads this, cool, but I'm not expecting anyone to. I just felt the urge to blog today. I thought about scrapping the previous posts and starting over yet again, but I decided not to bc those posts are pretty good. They also show how long I've been struggling with this issue of getting back into my writing just for fun. Speaking of which, I decided my word for 2025 is going to be (EN)JOY . I'm tired of focusing on what I need to fix in my life. Still gonna try to fix things like my health, but when it comes to my writing, reading, and anything involving fun, I really want to focus on actually enjoying them rather than worrying about keeping track of them. Like who cares how many books I read this year or when or how long I did a writing session or wtf ever. I just want to enjoy the moments while I'm in them. That's it. So, remember that Writ...