bookworm3159

Quick life update: Hi Everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I just wanted to write this quick update for you as I haven't been posting chapters nearly as much as I want to.
          	I was officially diagnosed with PMDD last month. My doctor has started trying to put me on anti depressants to see if it can help. As such. I'm in the middle of a brain chemical nightmare. Between the ADHD meds, the hormone stabilization meds, and the Anti-depressants my body is trying to figure out what's going on. Add in my normal Seasonal Affect Disorder and we're honestly lucky I'm getting out of bed at the moment. We're hoping the meds either stabilize by this time next month, or I start the cycle over again with new meds/dosages.
          	
          	As many of you may have guessed, I also work full time as a Mechanical Engineer. Sadly, in the US where I live, this doesn't make enough for me to be affording my current cost of living and paying off the combined almost 100k in student loans and credit card debt. As such, all of my extra hours have been going towards gig work, where I am right now spending another 20 to 30 hours a week outside of my engineering job working. This is with the goal of being fully debt free in the next 8 months. I could be taking it easier, but I am trying to be aggressive with getting out from under this mountain.
          	
          	This means I'm having less and less time as well as motivation to get writing done. I'm still trying to progress things, and I maybe get 100 words at day if I can force myself to sit that long. But I'm honestly not sure it's moving much past that for a while. At least until the meds get sorted.
          	
          	I want to thank you all for sticking with me. For being understanding as I try to hunker down a bit more. I'm really trying to focus on a life sprint at the moment with the hope of being full debt free before I hit 30 in 2027. Mainly cause I'd like to have the extra time to focus on not only these stories, but my own fully original series/works as well.
          	Thank you again! 
          	-Book

Sky1942

@bookworm3159 we have faith in you! And hope you find your balance, take all the time you need!
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Pentrudetoate2013

@bookworm3159  I hope you get better soon. Your health is more important than anything.  We will be here cheering you on. (I hear that antihistamines help with PMDD, something to research? ) 
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naaathinthestars

@bookworm3159 Take your time sorting out what you need to sort out! We'll stay here and wait for you, so focus on yourself <3
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bookworm3159

Quick life update: Hi Everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I just wanted to write this quick update for you as I haven't been posting chapters nearly as much as I want to.
          I was officially diagnosed with PMDD last month. My doctor has started trying to put me on anti depressants to see if it can help. As such. I'm in the middle of a brain chemical nightmare. Between the ADHD meds, the hormone stabilization meds, and the Anti-depressants my body is trying to figure out what's going on. Add in my normal Seasonal Affect Disorder and we're honestly lucky I'm getting out of bed at the moment. We're hoping the meds either stabilize by this time next month, or I start the cycle over again with new meds/dosages.
          
          As many of you may have guessed, I also work full time as a Mechanical Engineer. Sadly, in the US where I live, this doesn't make enough for me to be affording my current cost of living and paying off the combined almost 100k in student loans and credit card debt. As such, all of my extra hours have been going towards gig work, where I am right now spending another 20 to 30 hours a week outside of my engineering job working. This is with the goal of being fully debt free in the next 8 months. I could be taking it easier, but I am trying to be aggressive with getting out from under this mountain.
          
          This means I'm having less and less time as well as motivation to get writing done. I'm still trying to progress things, and I maybe get 100 words at day if I can force myself to sit that long. But I'm honestly not sure it's moving much past that for a while. At least until the meds get sorted.
          
          I want to thank you all for sticking with me. For being understanding as I try to hunker down a bit more. I'm really trying to focus on a life sprint at the moment with the hope of being full debt free before I hit 30 in 2027. Mainly cause I'd like to have the extra time to focus on not only these stories, but my own fully original series/works as well.
          Thank you again! 
          -Book

Sky1942

@bookworm3159 we have faith in you! And hope you find your balance, take all the time you need!
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Pentrudetoate2013

@bookworm3159  I hope you get better soon. Your health is more important than anything.  We will be here cheering you on. (I hear that antihistamines help with PMDD, something to research? ) 
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naaathinthestars

@bookworm3159 Take your time sorting out what you need to sort out! We'll stay here and wait for you, so focus on yourself <3
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bookworm3159

Me looking at my updates in the past few hours.... 
          
          And all my mind can supply is the gif of Will Ferrell going, "Well that escalated quickly."
          
          Hope you're all doing well!!
          
          -Book

bookworm3159

@LJMS34567 im doing well myself. Getting through student loan debts and professional licensing exams.
            Hence the giant explosion of uploads all at once. 
            I've been writing, just not being able to find the time to sit down an edit to upload. 
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LJMS34567

@bookworm3159 I'm doing good and how about you?
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bookworm3159

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For all my readers in the US. This Saturday, June 14th, is No King's Day. Please, if you are physically able, attend one of the thousands or protests taking place. If you don't know where to start visit nokings.org to find the closest protest to you.
          
          Know that if you support Trump, you are not welcome her. You are not welcome at my hearth I cast you out with a vengeance and will never grant you sanctuary in my home. You have foresacken me and mine, and have thus been foresacken in turn. May your plants wither and your labor always be fruitless. So mote it be.
          
          If you don't hear from me by Monday, know that I have likely been arrested at my own protest. But I will not stay silent during these times of fascism and injustice. I will go down swinging and in the words of Carl Schurz "My country right or wrong: if right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be set right". I'm making damn sure this shit show gets set right.
          
          -Book

sal3n3456

@ bookworm3159  You have my full support. I may not be from the US but I hope the situation gets better somehow (hope is a fickle thing really). Please stay safe.
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Pop_girl_Chryssy

@bookworm3159 im not from the US, but you have my support from germay. Please be save
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my_life_sucks123

Hello lovely,
          
          I just wanted to check in and make sure you were okay. We haven't heard from you in a while, and you seemed so motivated to write more proactively, so I wanted to see if everything was alright. This is NOT me pressuring you to write more, just making sure you're alive and taking care of yourself. I know the world is burning chaos right now, but I wanted to reach out and see how you were holding up <3

bookworm3159

@my_life_sucks123 
            Thank you for checking in. I'm still motivated towards writing more this year. I'm currently letting my body recover from burnout from my previous job. I'm also in the process of getting an adhd diagnosis, because my keeps getting worse.
            Also kinda feel like I'm in a doomsday prepping situation right now. So I'm trying to back fill my pantry as much as possible for the next 4 years while also starting a greenhouse.  
            
            I'm hopeful to start up again closer to the end of the month, but we'll see how I'm feeling
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bookworm3159

I hope all of you are doing well at the end of this year. I wanted to thank you so much for supporting me throughout these months, through the ups and the downs that is my life.
          
          I'm proud to say that I wrote 254,908 fanfiction words this year. Which is absolutely astonishing to me. I spent 6,938 minutes writing. Which is the equivalent of almost 5 days straight of writing.
          
          I've switched jobs (yet again) and have been spending these past few weeks working on myself. Really just getting my life back in order and learning to prioritize my health and well being.
          
          For this next year, I have joined a quest with some of my writing friends. It's called a Milli Word, and the goal is to write 1 million words in 2025. I'm so excited to continue building worlds and sharing adventures with you. 
          
          I'm also excited to announce that I have officially begun the rough draft for the first completely OC book. My secondary goal is to publishing this time next year.
          
          Thank you again SO MUCH for all the support and love you've given me this year. I really am not sure I would have continued to pursue writing without it as there were so many times I debated if I was good enough.
          
          Let's have some fun this year and see where the words take us!
          
          -Book

NikkiStanley5

So I have decided I'm gonna boycott you till all your stories are finished lol I'm dying of the suspense for the next chapters lol  I hope they are done soon

NikkiStanley5

@NikkiStanley5 I read your post and that's great to hear I'm proud of you getting so far and I really don't want to boycott but I have to all my fave writers aren't done with books and the suspense kills me lol
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bookworm3159

@NikkiStanley5 
            Enjoy your boycott. And I have an exciting announcement coming tomorrow or Wednesday. 
            It's something I've been spending the last month or so prepping for in regards to goals for 2025.
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