Darlings,
I can share now. I was able to
participate in the UsaMamo Spring Fic Exchange 2K20 over on Tumblr. The lovely UglyGreenJacket
hosts it. I’m going to share the link here. The premise is everybody gets a
secret someone they are writing for. It’s anonymous, and that makes it cool. I
should add that artists are included, and I had Sailor Moon art drawn
specifically for me. How could you not love that? I wrote an episode based on my artists likes. I hope she loves it! Here is the link to the story
I wrote.
I
learned things about myself, and my writing by writing to a deadline. It was a
great experience. I was terrified, yet elated.
I was also concerned that I wouldn’t
finish on time, due to multiple life complications. First, I went on that eight-day
trip. I wrote a tiny bit in Chicago, but the rest of the week was a loss. Second
the first and second week we went into shelter in place and lockdown, I
struggled to write. I think I wrote nothing for two weeks. I was going kind of
crazy and avoiding writing. That hurt the most, because I knew I was avoiding
it, but fear and anxiety locked me up.
My reason will sound lame, I know. I
was so used to writing at Starbucks, and then they closed. The fear of this
whole life changing event we are all locked into really messed with my head. I
knew it wasn’t just that Starbucks had closed, it was fear of the unknown.
Finally, I sat my butt down, and we had a serious come-to-Jesus type of
meeting.
Sounds funny I know, I giggle even
as I share that, but it’s true. I either had to own that I can follow through,
or I let it fall by the wayside as a learning experience. It almost fell by the
wayside, truthfully, but what stopped that was the idea, that if I couldn’t
follow through on fanfiction, how could I follow through with original fiction.
Something clicked in me, and I found my way through the end of the story with
help from the Universe.
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