This is a bit of a fluffed-up transcript of a recent 5-part video series I did where I interviewed myself (link to the full video at the end of this post). I will expand upon a few answers in this blog, so it should be a little more cohesive. Do keep in mind I’m ADHD, so I bounce from topic to topic.
Something I do wish I knew a little less about is, catastrophe. Chaos. Unrest. I've moved more than three dozen times in my life, and I'm not done yet. I’ve had dozens of jobs, relationships, and ambitions. I've seen many of them dashed to bits.
And it seems like the world is absolutely chock full of such things these days.
Somewhere in my internet travels I came across 7 Principals to Keep In Mind for a Creative Career, and I have them written on a note card taped beneath my central monitor.
I am Autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) and I do have to give myself certain levels of accommodations in order to ensure I don’t burn out on any of this. I want to be here. I want to keep writing and keep reaching out to all of you and making content, but I do not want to burn out.
Since we last spoke, several personal things have happened, including losing my job and going through the slog of bureaucratic nonsense to get Unemployment approved. Here in the States that’s a bit of a process. Then I had to migrate my entire website, blog, and everything over to a new website builder and hosting site (two separate entities this time), and that took a great deal of finagling.
To me, it seems as though I blinked and suddenly it’s almost summer.
What happened to winter? What happened to my plans and intentions?
I admit I got caught up in figuring out my new position at my new job, and that had some drama to boot, and that took a great deal of my mental energy.
It’s a little harder to write in some ways with a full-time job, in others the structure helps me figure out precisely when I have to have my ass in the chair and be producing words. I’ve had some of my best days in the New Year.
I worry over a great many things. Our justice system was already turned upside-down in many ways from four years of Trump, and now it’s going to be upended even more, turned conservative for what I forsee to be essentially the rest of my natural life. Gods only knows what he and his ilk will do when they start using their Project 2025 playbook.
The Danuverse is an amalgam of Danu, the name of an ancient Irish goddess, and universe. It is not based on my name, promise (I have never liked being called Dani or any variation thereupon, personal preference).
It has been a long time since I’ve tried to write a blog post. I had my reasons, but it is time to dust off this little corner of the internet and settle into things with a little more frequency.
I have been spending my time recently updating and polishing off edits for Catching Shadows, which is due to be released this Friday, October 18th.
The other day, writing in my journal, I wrote, “I must be able to create despite the burning wreckage of my expectations.”
That line summarizes what the last two and a half years have been like. I have been amazed that, despite the absolute chaos my life became, I was able to produce Catching Embers, as well as some pieces of fanfiction and short stories for my own collection.
