Addressing the Elephant in the Room
Hello again, all.
It's been a very long time since I've been on Blogger as is no mystery to a lot of the old Author and Writing crowd. While I did decide to pop back in and considered just posting things whenever, I felt like I should respectfully let people know what's going on.
The short and simple of it is: life happened. While I don't want to dive too deeply into it, a large amount of medical and personal circumstances struck very hard, not to mention being followed by the beginning of the pandemic and the disaster that has been the last few years. As it stands, I had very little inspiration to do anything short of hide from existence and haven't done much in the way of writing.
My intent for moving forward is quite simply to get back into it. I'm a great deal more focused on writing both small and large projects. I'm working on several things on the back end that I intent to publish and therefore don't want to actually post on the blog. I can promise more to come on that one. I intend to also put out stuff on the block that wouldn't otherwise find its way into a publication. These might be a bit more random then previous, though I hope that's more because I've expanded as a writer than gotten worse as one.
I'll let you be the judge of that.
Finally, I'm thinking about changing things up to make this less of a purely fiction related blog and expand out more. I've had thoughts about doing reviews, informationals, and things like that, but I really haven't delved too hard into that quite yet and am not sure if I want to quite yet.
At the end of the day, my intent is simply to get back into the groove and really start writing and living again. I hope everyone has been doing well and it's nice already seeing some familiar names and blogs that I haven't seen in quite a few years.
The best I can offer is: expect more to come. I'm not sure about scheduling or anything like that, just know that the willingness is there, so keep your ear to the ground.
Just do it!
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Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteLife is often a messy (and sometimes vicious) beast. It is lovely to see you back.
ReplyDeleteI welcome you back and life indeed takes one on detours but, sometimes a path of inspiration
ReplyDeleteopens. The path is waiting take one step at a time.
Hi HRB -- Thanks for popping by my blog today! I really appreciate the comment you left sharing your experience. Glad you've got your writing mojo back and wishing you lots of inspiration with that!
ReplyDeleteLife happens. It's been a rough couple years. If you want to connect with more writer types, check out the Insecure Writers Support Group (IWSG:https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/ ). On the first Wednesday of every month, there's a blog hop where everyone can talk about how the writing life is going. If you're branching out of just pure fiction on this blog, you might want to check that out.
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