Not a Fan of Adulting Right Now

Life is coming at me like Strickland with the bullhorn right now, and I don't like it. I may be the only person you find complaining about the fact that her husband is taking her house shopping and all she wants to do is stick to her writing schedule because it's hard enough to do that with a job and kids and other adultly responsibilities. Now we're gonna throw packing up an entire house and moving around the holidays on top of it?

I loved the tours we got yesterday! I love that we might be finally getting out of our "in-between house" after six years when we only planned to stay in it for two. But all my tiny brain can think about is "I'm literally four chapters away from realizing a 17-year-old goal of mine and this is majorly cutting into that." And I don't want to just bang out the last chapters in a rush because that's not going to be how I end this series I have worked so hard on.

I feel like a brat. I'm just excited about getting my hobby back after letting depression have it for so long that I don't want to lose the momentum, but I know other things have to come first. I just don't want to let readers down. Outside of my little family of five, I don't have a social circle. It's all online with my readers and fellow authors, so I put a lot of weight on those relationships and the promises I make (like "I'm posting the last chapter of my series on November 16th come hell or high water.").

The water is coming, and it is high. But I'm not going away like I did before. So, if you notice updates are taking a little longer than usual from me, be patient. Message me. Stay on top of me. I'm still here! I still plan to do Doctober and take prompts in my ask box, too. I love the amount of writing I've been putting out!

I guess I'm just afraid to lose the habit of writing in all this real-life action. But today, I have the day off, I have a quiet house to myself for the next five hours, and I'm going to do what I can before I have to start finding boxes to put everything in.

Keep blowing up my ask box with more prompts in the meantime: 5+1 Prompts, Chaos Prompts, and The Writing Emoji Ask Game was kind of fun! Or just any ideas you have you want me to try my hand at! It'll help!