Good grief, I'm still alive!? · 9:39pm Jul 11th, 2015
I've made a whole lot of posts about my medical conditions, haven't I?
Well, they've been quite the adventure. What's happened since my last update? Well, there was the mass growing in my gut, a massive surgery I was in the hospital for ten days after, and now I'm still recovering.
The good news is, I'm getting back into "A World Apart" and starting to write again for the enjoyment of it, rather than to please y'all.
That's an important lesson a friend of mine (Erindor) just recently reminded me of, and it's something that's really been blocking my creativity. I mean, having a massive surgery, terrible pain, and being weak and helpless in the hospital for awhile certainly put my writing on pause for awhile, but another creative block was that I forgot why I was writing; because I love crafting this story. I became too concerned with pleasing readers and worrying about making good content, rather than actually pleasing readers and making content good because I love creating good content.
It's one of those deep paradox-thingies that life has. If you chase butterflies, they all fly off. But if you stop chasing them, and sit still, then they just might land on you.
In other words, I'm alive and writing again. My health is improving, we're starting to discover the underlying condition that's caused all these things (we think), so hopefully I'll stop having these summer life-threatening episodes, and my creative desire to write is being re-kindled.
Thought you'd like to know that, and that the next chapter of AWA is well underway and already has some-odd 5,000 checked words to it, though I still have another scene to go. It's a big one. Perhaps the biggest one yet. Stuff's gonna happen, my friends - stuff's gonna happen, and there will be explosions. No shortskirts, though.
Well, maybe shortskirts.
Nah. Too cold.
(And no, btw, thank goodness I don't have cancer)
(And I just realized today is the 1-monthiversery of my surgery. Hurray! Two more weeks until the "six week period" is over that doctors often refer to as the most intense recovery period)
Glad to hear you're getting better. And yeah, forget the readers. You don't know what we want. We don't know what we want. Just do whatever and it'll be K.
On annother note: Huvlumpleizer!!!! I'm so excited!