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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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WRITER RESET TAKE 3!

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 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...
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Writer Reset, Take 2! (Get ready, this is a long-ass update!)

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 I have a draft post on here from September 2023! That just shows how well my Writer Reset went. lol So yeah, this is actually my second attempt at resetting my Writer Reset! 🤣 Here goes! Obviously, the first one fizzled out. I was going to try again in September, apparently, but seeing as I never went back and finished the post, let alone published it, I'd say that didn't happen. Oh well, it's okay. Either way, I came here to start over again anyway! So here I am! In general, the same problem I was having before reared its ugly head again. No matter how much I tried to convince myself I was not going to ever publish again and my writing is now simply and purely for fun, there was still that little nagging voice in the back of my head going, "Well, you still need to do the writing! Why aren't you doing it? What happened to wanting to write so bad? Huh?" Shut UP, stupid nagging voice! 😝 Anyway, I think I finally figured out what my problem was this whole time...
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