Like Sands Through The Hourglass, This Is My Mental State

Okay, so at the start of November I started posting my story Hourglass for NaNoWriMo. I already had some chapters written when I published the story so I could have a buffer in case I missed some writing in my planned every-other day schedule. I had preplanned individual chapters far ahead to reduce time in brainstorming and writing. There's an unpublished chapter just titled "planning" that's 8k words and counting just sitting above the prologue. When I started November, I thought I was ready for anything.

What I was not ready for was polymer-toxin-induced severe chronic exhaustion and appetite loss that spiraled into me nearly wasting away in my bed before my roommate saved my life by calling my mother up to my college so she could force me to actually function and go see a doctor and other kinda important things. At this point, I've decided life just doesn't want me to write multi-chapter stories.

Despite having a nearly two week period where I was dead to the world, I am still determined to keep this story going in time with NaNoWriMo. Even with my unexpected hiatus and the annoying challenge of living with what's expected to be permanent moderate chronic exhaustion, I want to try and get this story past 30k words by the month's end. I don't want to just stop at the month's end either, I've got big (probably too big) hopes for this story and I am really excited to write it!

So to my followers who haven't checked it out yet, see the story tagged in this blog! I know the first chapters are slow, but please bear with me. And to those who are tracking this story, thanks so much and I'm sorry for dropping off the face of the web for a hot minute there. I am working on chapters whenever I am cognizant enough to write things that aren't shit.

I hope to be posting the next chapter soon! I'll see you guys then.