Down the Rabbit Hole

Happy Wednesday! I can't believe it's already almost June! Everything feels like it's going by way too fast and I didn't even get up another post for mental health awareness month this month... But is anyone else loving all the Summer vibes? I don't know, I'm feeling summer this year. Having the AC on and we set up a pool last week and having friends over and just wearing dresses and shorts again. After such a rough winter, summer feels like hope and a fresh start.  Writing: April was a hard month all around, but it was also a rough writing month. From March through all of April I jumped from project to project, all of them falling through. None of the ideas or stories I tried to work on stuck. I felt burnt out and insecure about my writing and the thought of writing another novel or a long WIP was daunting and exhausting to me. I was so scared that I would never write another novel again. That I would be one of those people that stopped writing for months or y

 Happy Wednesday!  I gotta start out this post by announcing that Jenni Sauer's new book, Yesterday or Long Ago, is out today! It's a YA Aladdin sci-fi retelling with Pride and Prejudice vibes. The cover is gorgeous and the characters are amazing and the world is fantastic. It's set in the same sci-fi world as her NA Cinderella retelling Rook Di Goo. You can find out more about it and buy it HERE .  Alright, now that that's done, I thought I would share some tips for writers who have anxiety and depression. For me, anxiety impedes my writing when it makes my brain run a mile a minute and turns my attention span into that of a squirrel. I can't sit down and focus and I'm lucky if I can get 100 words in before I lose concentration and want to jump to something else. It also makes it hard to focus or get anything done with my brain won't shut up too. And depression? Well, I have to force myself to the computer and sit down and write when I feel tired, zero moti

 Happy Wednesday!  Since May is Mental Health Awareness month, I've decided for this month I'm going to be talking about mental health/mental illness on my blog! If you've been following me for any amount of time, you've seen me mention my anxiety and depression on a number of occasions, mostly during my monthly wrap ups. I've been struggling with anxiety and depression since I was sixteen. After getting a pretty big diagnosis and having a trauma, I had panic attacks almost every night for a while. I don't really have panic attacks anymore (thank goodness), but my anxiety and depression still can get pretty bad. It's an up and down thing. Sometimes I feel really good and am doing really good and then other times its like anxiety is ruling my life. Right now, that's how I'm feeling. Like my anxiety is ruling every aspect of my life, like it's holding me back. It's hard to shut my brain off, I get overwhelmed really easily, I feel majorly stres