Listen to what makes your heart sing This quotation – taken from an interview with Todd Stashwick – is tattooed on the inside of my right forearm. Life advice that I read just as I realised that chasing publication with contemporary romance was not working. I love reading it, but writing? It’s not my genre of choice. So, I took that timely advice – and had it etched into my skin – and went back to SFF romance, the thing…
I had my ADHD assessment this morning, and I absolutely have it. I was fairly sure, but the assessor marked me high on hyperactivity, which came as a much bigger surprise than the inattentiveness. It turns out that hyperactivity looks very different in girls/women to boys/men. In general, boys are physically active and loud, whereas girls are more mentally active – prone to daydreaming and bouncing from one idea to the next. We twirl our hair or jiggle our legs….
Yesterday, I finished the first draft of my paranormal romance A CERTAIN DARKNESS! ACD began back in January as fanfic. The idea came from a weird, dark recess of my brain that combined a fairly well-known “neo-noir supernatural fiction” series and That Scene from the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. I tried to ignore, I really did, but it wouldn’t leave me alone, so I wrote a chapter. And then another. Four chapters in, and it was so…
Although I had an anxiety attack at Cross Roads, I dismissed it as a one-off – a result of a stressful week. Then a week last Saturday, it happened again. I’d signed up to join Bolton Pride with my choir, but couldn’t find parking with the road closures in place. My anxiety spiked and I just went home. The following Saturday, aka the one just gone, I was watching Todd Stashwick’s usual live and he mentioned anxiety… I honestly forget…
