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That long-promised life update! Or a version of it!
Soooooo the full-time writing thing is on hold for the moment, I had to jump back into the working world (BOOOOOO WE HATE THAT FOR ME BOOOOOO) due to some family health issues that came up, like, a month or two after I originally posted about pivoting to full-time writing. On the plus side, the timing kind of worked out and my coworkers don't suck and it's totally normal hours (yaaaaaay we love that for me yaaaaay (genuinely not sarcastically)).
But I still want the writing thing to happen, more than you can imagine. I wanted to take some time to get settled in the gig first and figure out where to squeeze in the writing and make both work. So far it is, dare I say, not great? The health issues my family is dealing with leave a lot on my GD plate unfortunately, and on the worst days I feel pretty ragged because it takes a lot out of me and I'm not exactly a fount of energy to begin with. And on my better days I don't want to work on the original stuff! I want to work on uhhhhhh fic. Haha. Though I don't think anyone will complain about that here!
Honestly, I'm not complaining either. I love it and it's a nice escape for me. But it is its own type of mental work. Like, the other week I got super into the nextspicy reds thing I'm doing, so I wrote that for a few days until I started to hate looking at it, and this week I'd been thinking of trying to get back into it but realized I was feeling the spy!au thing more. I've also gone back to thinking of the original novella I got a draft out of last summer. And, of course, I keep coming back to TEF intermittently. Can't help it.
That's what I got. I take it as a good sign that I'm thinking about the original piece again, since that signifies the first step in the life pivot I want to make, and I also don't want to be wholly dependent on a job physically based in the US for uhhhh pretty obvious reasons (god the health thing alone has been kind of a nightmare in this country). Things aren't completely stoppered on my end, just a little delayed. Cross your fingers for me that I'll work out the balance soon!
Thanks so much to y'all for the sweet messages and the support, and your endless, endless patience with me. I really appreciate it 💗
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Soooooo the full-time writing thing is on hold for the moment, I had to jump back into the working world (BOOOOOO WE HATE THAT FOR ME BOOOOOO) due to some family health issues that came up, like, a month or two after I originally posted about pivoting to full-time writing. On the plus side, the timing kind of worked out and my coworkers don't suck and it's totally normal hours (yaaaaaay we love that for me yaaaaay (genuinely not sarcastically)).
But I still want the writing thing to happen, more than you can imagine. I wanted to take some time to get settled in the gig first and figure out where to squeeze in the writing and make both work. So far it is, dare I say, not great? The health issues my family is dealing with leave a lot on my GD plate unfortunately, and on the worst days I feel pretty ragged because it takes a lot out of me and I'm not exactly a fount of energy to begin with. And on my better days I don't want to work on the original stuff! I want to work on uhhhhhh fic. Haha. Though I don't think anyone will complain about that here!
Honestly, I'm not complaining either. I love it and it's a nice escape for me. But it is its own type of mental work. Like, the other week I got super into the next
That's what I got. I take it as a good sign that I'm thinking about the original piece again, since that signifies the first step in the life pivot I want to make, and I also don't want to be wholly dependent on a job physically based in the US for uhhhh pretty obvious reasons (god the health thing alone has been kind of a nightmare in this country). Things aren't completely stoppered on my end, just a little delayed. Cross your fingers for me that I'll work out the balance soon!
Thanks so much to y'all for the sweet messages and the support, and your endless, endless patience with me. I really appreciate it 💗
AO3 | FFNet | AskFM | Ko-Fi
