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20221003 My Brain Needs Work

October 3, 2022, 9:00pm

So... I think I have found another side effect of going through the mental health issues I am experiencing.

I sat down today to write. I had nothing else to do, so writing it is. I have the story I have been working on for a little while (chapter one is here "Invalid Item" ), and that has hit chapter 5 on re-writing everything after chapter 3. That was a couple of hours' worth.
         This story is about clones but I am having trouble creating a genuine bad guy.
Then there was two hours spent on another story that I thought would be a short story but it's now reached 11k words, so it's not going to be that short.
         This story is about an ancient tome, an evil book, an example of an Anthropodermic byblios.
An hour on a screenplay. I am taking this one slow because it is really just a way to get an idea out of my head, and this is one of the few that I have completely planned out, so I don't need to rush to get the ideas down before I lose them.
         This is about an adult D&D game that gets out of control.
And then I wrote a short story (1200 words) in a frenzy of 40 minutes of writing.
         A pair of elderly people find one another. Sweet, no horror, just old romance.

So, what was the side effect?
         I am in a frenzy of writing. So many ideas, so many different stories, and I am keeping them all under control in my head. I feel like I am struggling to concentrate on any one thing, but I have so many one things it is not mattering.

This is new to me. I'm not really complaining, but I do wish my brain would settle down. Even a little...