It is weird. Seasonal perhaps? My brain feels quite fragmented as well. My attention is shattered. I think I have to be a bit careful that I don’t completely crack. But it’s all good at the moment.
The wonderful thing about this space and writing itself is that it's always there when you need it 💜 I have a new book I want to write about late discovery ADHD, I have made a few notes but nothing more substantial than that. But they are there, on the page, for when I am ready. The same goes for my more naughty writing. Go play, Katie, enjoy yourself and live your wonderful, creative life x x
Awwwww you always know what to say, Anna. Thank you for your support and kindness. That’s really exciting about your book!! I definitely am living my life… sometimes I worry I live it a bit too much lol xxx
Love this and I can fully relate. Now that I’ve told the bulk of my Why We Met story that led to my second happy marriage, I feel less urge to write about how fortunate I feel now after all the bad matches of the past. Is happiness inherently boring for people to read about? It’s not cathartic in the same way reliving happy memories and it’s surprisingly harder to recall happy memories distinctly for me—they’re more a collective blur. But I suppose that’s good in that it means the writing has helped me heal (plus therapy). Glad you’re in a lovely and better place. Yay! And the TikTok thing is exciting. I keep trying to make vids to promote my Substack and I’m so cringey. But I guess it all takes practice. I hope you make money from the singing. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 I mean £3 is a start. 🫶🏻🥰🥳
Thank you so much Elaine! It’s nice to know you get it! Another friend said I should write about happy stuff - maybe we should do that?? I know what you mean about happy memories blurring. Maybe I just need to take a bit of breathing space. I really don’t know. Thank you for the well wishes! I would love to make some money from my singing. Watch this space I guess. You will have to tell me your TikTok name! 🤩🥰
I'm sure we started writing on Substack at around the same time and I've written about how selling our house to have a narrow boat built to live on after a huge breakdown/the death of my Mum/covid helped me to heal. I had wanted to write a book about this, but now I just want to get on with my life and focus on 'now'. I totally get that your focus is on having fun on Tik Tok and hopefully getting an income from your singing...which is great by the way! There's no pressure to write on here every week, so see where life takes you and maybe write about your Tiktok experiences on Substack 😉 Karen
Thank you Karen! Yes I think we did start around the same time! I think maybe I do need to step back but I don’t want to do that too much. Perhaps I’ll relax my publication schedule. I’ve been thinking about this for a while. And yes maybe I could write about TikTok 😂😃 Thank you for joining in and supporting 🙏🏻🥰 xxx
I'm only writing now when I really feel I want to; I don't want to feel I have to just because I've usually posted every week since I started. I didn't want any paid subscribers, so I don't feel responsible for anything 🤣 I'm feeling my way through thus part of my life thanks Katie and life is good...I don't feel like going back over difficult times to write a book now, I just want to enjoy life each and every day as much as I can 🥰 xx
I mean, it's all creativity, isn't it? If you're the type of soul who needs to create, I don't think it matters where you do it. Maybe avoid doing it on the morning commute, but you get my point. Ultimately if you're happy then it's all good, innit?
Thanks Lewis. Yes it is all good! I think I just feel guilty that I leaned on this community when I needed it most, and now I’m flouncing off to lark around somewhere else. I worry about consistency, letting people down (especially my paid subscribers), generally being a dick etc. Maybe I don’t need to worry but it’s a hobby of mine!
Also write and have huge outpourings of content when I’m sad, or grieving, or hurt - and then dry up totally when functioning happily. Just wanted to say that I hear you.
I haven’t been wanting to write lately either…weird isn’t it
It is weird. Seasonal perhaps? My brain feels quite fragmented as well. My attention is shattered. I think I have to be a bit careful that I don’t completely crack. But it’s all good at the moment.
The wonderful thing about this space and writing itself is that it's always there when you need it 💜 I have a new book I want to write about late discovery ADHD, I have made a few notes but nothing more substantial than that. But they are there, on the page, for when I am ready. The same goes for my more naughty writing. Go play, Katie, enjoy yourself and live your wonderful, creative life x x
Awwwww you always know what to say, Anna. Thank you for your support and kindness. That’s really exciting about your book!! I definitely am living my life… sometimes I worry I live it a bit too much lol xxx
Love this and I can fully relate. Now that I’ve told the bulk of my Why We Met story that led to my second happy marriage, I feel less urge to write about how fortunate I feel now after all the bad matches of the past. Is happiness inherently boring for people to read about? It’s not cathartic in the same way reliving happy memories and it’s surprisingly harder to recall happy memories distinctly for me—they’re more a collective blur. But I suppose that’s good in that it means the writing has helped me heal (plus therapy). Glad you’re in a lovely and better place. Yay! And the TikTok thing is exciting. I keep trying to make vids to promote my Substack and I’m so cringey. But I guess it all takes practice. I hope you make money from the singing. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 I mean £3 is a start. 🫶🏻🥰🥳
Thank you so much Elaine! It’s nice to know you get it! Another friend said I should write about happy stuff - maybe we should do that?? I know what you mean about happy memories blurring. Maybe I just need to take a bit of breathing space. I really don’t know. Thank you for the well wishes! I would love to make some money from my singing. Watch this space I guess. You will have to tell me your TikTok name! 🤩🥰
I'm sure we started writing on Substack at around the same time and I've written about how selling our house to have a narrow boat built to live on after a huge breakdown/the death of my Mum/covid helped me to heal. I had wanted to write a book about this, but now I just want to get on with my life and focus on 'now'. I totally get that your focus is on having fun on Tik Tok and hopefully getting an income from your singing...which is great by the way! There's no pressure to write on here every week, so see where life takes you and maybe write about your Tiktok experiences on Substack 😉 Karen
Thank you Karen! Yes I think we did start around the same time! I think maybe I do need to step back but I don’t want to do that too much. Perhaps I’ll relax my publication schedule. I’ve been thinking about this for a while. And yes maybe I could write about TikTok 😂😃 Thank you for joining in and supporting 🙏🏻🥰 xxx
I'm only writing now when I really feel I want to; I don't want to feel I have to just because I've usually posted every week since I started. I didn't want any paid subscribers, so I don't feel responsible for anything 🤣 I'm feeling my way through thus part of my life thanks Katie and life is good...I don't feel like going back over difficult times to write a book now, I just want to enjoy life each and every day as much as I can 🥰 xx
Good for you. I’m starting to feel the same 🥰🥰 xx
PS I hope you’re feeling good. It’s great that you want to get on with your life and focus on now ❤️ xx
I mean, it's all creativity, isn't it? If you're the type of soul who needs to create, I don't think it matters where you do it. Maybe avoid doing it on the morning commute, but you get my point. Ultimately if you're happy then it's all good, innit?
Thanks Lewis. Yes it is all good! I think I just feel guilty that I leaned on this community when I needed it most, and now I’m flouncing off to lark around somewhere else. I worry about consistency, letting people down (especially my paid subscribers), generally being a dick etc. Maybe I don’t need to worry but it’s a hobby of mine!
Also write and have huge outpourings of content when I’m sad, or grieving, or hurt - and then dry up totally when functioning happily. Just wanted to say that I hear you.
Thank you Tory, I appreciate you sharing that! I hope everything is ok in your world 🙏🏻🥰
Definitely give yourself grace during this season. Do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself, including lots of singing on TikTok!
Thank you Maria! 🙏🏻🥰