Oh the joy of the writing process! There are times when I love writing, a lot of them actually. Okay, at this point my writing is like my golf. I catch just enough pars and bogeys to keep the snowmen at bay. Or, in literary terms, the joys outweigh the sorrows by near enough to propel the process forward.
So. That’s where I’ve been lately. Why? What’s up with you? Is a fresh hell breaking in the Constitutional crisis that is this administration?
I don’t want to belittle the struggle going forward against the Nectarine Noriega. I’ve just been unplugged for a bit. I’ve been wrestling the anxiety of the first big rewrite. You have no idea how much I will enjoy typing these ne
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As some of my readers know, I have Bipolar I “disease” for lack of a better term. I don’t know what to call it anymore. But it doesn’t really matter so much. At some point it was important to have a name for it. Something to point to, explain, or rage against. But I’m beyond that. I’m a decade past diagnosis now. So things are changing.
My diagnosis came, oddly enough, around the election night in 2008. It’s how I remember the anniversary. That wasn’t the exact day of any medical news or particular insight. It was simply the first time I remember feeling good. It was the first time I felt a sign of being able to pull through this.
All of which is to say that anxiety is a real thing for me. And this re write is bringing out all of it. Full on, medically diagnosed and treated, anxiety. It has been rough.
All of which is to say, what about the past week did I miss?
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