Status update, in which somebunny thinks you care about their life or something · 7:02pm Oct 23rd, 2017
Howdy 
Got some good news for a change. Let’s start with what you probably all already know: I’ve got a new story out 
It’s a story about learning to cope with anxiety through ponies supporting one another. Given that almost everyone I know in this fandom has some anxiety issues, it’s probably the most relatable thing I’ve ever written 
It’ll run for three chapters, so it’ll be complete on November 6th. If that doesn’t do it for you, it’s a shipfic, and is actually the only Shyheart fic on the site (insofar as I could find). If that doesn’t do it for you, honestly, why are you even reading me?
Oh, right, Looking Glass. Pretty much the complete opposite of this new fic lol. But there’s news on that front! I’ve finished the next chapter 
Well, finished writing. It’s got to go through editing before it’s ready for publishing. And even at that, I want a bit of a queue to make sure I can actually push chapters out on time. Now if only I had something else updating over the next few weeks while I build said queue 
Now, let me not get ahead of myself. Two weeks (probably) isn’t really enough time to build a satisfactory queue and I know it. The odds that Looking Glass will come back on November 13th are very small. But there’s a glimmer of hope for that, and it’s actually some of the best news I’ve had in a long time! A recent change in policy at work leaves me with practically nothing to do all night. I kinda just have to be there, so I started taking a notebook with me to work on my writing. This obviously means I have extra time every week to write, but there’s even more to it than that.
If you’ve followed my blogs for a while, you’ve probably clued into the fact that I’m not exactly mentally well. And for the past year, I’ve been pretty well fucked. Being creative when I feel like I’m going to implode under the pressure of things is incredibly challenging, and it’s the reason I stopped publishing weekly chapters (something I had been able to do consistently without even breaking in between stories until I broke down almost a year ago). I’m not about to get into the full details of my life, but one of the main sources of stress for me is the fact that I’m a god awful fit for my job. Constantly forcing social interactions for eight hours a day when I have severe social anxiety and am already trying to not crumble under the weight of my other problems leaves me too dead to want to do anything vaguely productive.
But now I’ve got the ability to write at work, and it’s changed everything. I still have to force the social interactions, but in between them, I now have a built-in stress relief. It’s only been a week so far, but the change has been immediate. I come home feeling tired, but like a regular “tired from work” kind of tired. Not a “feel like the best thing I could do is sleep all day because life sucks anyway so why be awake” kind of tired. And the effects on my writing are pretty undeniable. Most of the time, I’m good if I can manage writing a single chapter in a week. This chapter was finished in three days, two of which were workdays.
Anyway, this has been a really rambling blog post when all I wanted to do was tell y’all Looking Glass might be coming back sooner rather than later I’ll blame the fact that I’ve been up all night and much of the day writing because I was just too excited to stop 
Good. Happy you doing something better with your life.
Hearing that you are feeling better is really uplifting Kricky
Hope it keeps going this way