Taking a break
Image by @huper
Hello lovely people. I’ve been mostly absent the past while, and quiet for the rest of that same while, which is for a few reasons. My health has staggered rather, flaring up more often in recent weeks; that’s been fun. As well, I’ve been buried within tens of thousands of words’ worth of work. This includes a finished first draft of a new manuscript! Woo!
Capped at 75k, I began the next project the very next day. In a week and a half, I’ve managed to draw out 23k words thus far. So that’s been thrilling! This project is a continuation of the draft that precedes it; I’m intending to write the series out in a sort of rapid-fire succession. I think I’ve hit a wire; I have the entire saga bottled up in my head, where it’s lived for years. Through crippling pressure headaches, through mental health spirals, through stumbling out of my teens and into my third decade of existence. I’m ready for it to pour out onto paper, to have multiple books all telling the one grand story.
So far, so good. Even though it’s been surrounded by health crashes, I’m thriving on the excitement of telling this tale. There’s no story I’m more passionate about, but that may well be due to my having been with it for so long.
Still, while writing has been fantastic thus far, my reading has been difficult. I’m currently struggling to find a book to start and mow through. Book, film, I’ve been stuck. What do I read? What do I watch? I’m thinking about re-reading something, though even that, I don’t know! Ooh, the curses of indecisiveness!
Still, I do have some big blog posts I want to write — things not to do with books or films that have gotten loud in my brain. As well, I’m about to dive into my upcoming semester of university online! So much is coming, and I’m eager to give it all my all, so I have a plan.
I’m going to take a break for a while. I’ll try and post on my social media pages, but here at The Charisian, things will be quiet for a while. Please don’t let that keep you, though! Please do stop by and check out my other posts, my reviews, my inner monologues, and everything in-between!
This is a far shorter bloggering than my usual works, seeing as my head is really hurting, so I’ll leave it here! To everyone, regardless of where you’ve come from, who you are now, and where you’re going, I hope you have a most beautiful day.
— Charis.
