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Rough Draft Challenge Day 1!

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 I'm participating in Sarra Cannon's Rough Draft Challenge. For all the details, check out this video:  How to Join the Rough Draft Challenge I love this challenge because it's the exact opposite of the old NaNoWriMo. For those of you who might somehow stumble across this blog and wonder what the hell I'm talking about, NaNoWriMo was short for National Novel Writing Month, which was a challenge that started about 20-25 years ago, I think. Not sure about the exact history, but what I do know is the organization is now defunct thanks to some pretty bad controversies that happened last year and a couple years before. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, here:  The Tragic Downfall of NaNoWriMo  Otherwise just know that it was bad, and while the spirit of NaNo as a challenge was cool and all, there was a lot of pressure involved that I never liked, namely the pressure to write 50,000 words in a month. I don't do word counts. I suck at tracking. Therefore I always str...
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Writing Meetings are back! And other updates...

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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 ...
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Paracosms vs. "Maladaptive Daydreaming"

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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...
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