July is Disability Pride Month & Camp NaNoWriMo!

              Well, it’s fair to say that it snuck up on me again, just like it always does.

              Honestly, it feels like just the other day, it was the beginning of June, and I was thinking about whether I wanted to participate in Camp NaNoWriMo this year. If I had the time, energy, spoons… (my chronically ill folx know what I mean when I say that, if you don’t, I’ll link something I wrote about it not so long ago for you here.)

              In the meantime, I think the question persists… am I going to do Camp this year?

              The answer is… well, I don’t know. It’s July first, and I have registered my current WIP on the nanowrimo.org website, and an old friend of mine did message me today saying that she was participating and asked to add me. So, I guess I’m going to try. I did tell myself that I wanted to start spending more time and effort on my writing, and that is a very important part of my life, so there is that however, I’m also a little bit worried. Between everything that’s going on the USA right now, including what happened last week with Roe v. Wade (something I’m not quite ready to talk about personally) and everything going on with my health, I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to complete Camp.

              I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do 50,000 words in 30 days.

              I don’t even know if I’m going to be able to do 50 words in 30 days.

              My health isn’t great right now, and my grandma’s health isn’t great right now, so as much as I’m trying to push through and make myself get something down on paper, I’m a little scared that I can’t. Maybe that’s the imposter syndrome acting up again. I don’t know but, if it is, I really wish someone would get that little voice in the back of my head to shut up because, they’re an asshole, and I don’t like them.

              As for now, I know that it’s Friday, and it’s not a normal day for me to be posting but, I just wanted to come on here and get all of this off of my chest, and down onto paper. So, for all of my chronically ill and disabled people… Happy Disability Pride month. For all of my writerly people, Happy NaNo, may all of your words make perfect sense, and may your coffee bless you with enough energy and peace of mind to write them all down. I’m off to watch the new episode of Motherland on Hulu and work through some of my notes so I can hopefully get the first chapter of Something Wicked done.

              Love you always,

              -Sky