I want to get back to writing so badly.

 Writing helps my mental health like nothing else, but it also is what has kept me from writing. This year has been rough. Writing has always gotten me through the worse of my life, until now.

My dad died earlier this year, and it's been a huge life and emotional adjustment. I just had my first birthday without him and soon my first Christmas without him.

I guess I just need to stay busy. 

Writing has always put me in another world, it takes me away from my anxiety issues, it makes me feel better, and just puts me out of my head for a while, and usually sets me up for a better day if I do it before work. I have OCD which often causes me to obsess over negative things, but writing causes me to obsess over my plots and characters, so my obsession is channeled into something else.

Fairy Tail is similar, Fairy Tail is really my happy place. The characters feel like family to me, they feel almost too real, and I love this series with all my heart. It is so personal to me as someone who grew up as a bullied outcast with no friends.

When I write the characters, I feel like I'm spending time with my friends and family, and I get to have adventures with them in my head. I just love writing and Fairy Tail.

I hope I'm in a better mental health space to write them now. I will do my best for the sake of my mental health to get back to writing, because nothing helps me more than writing. 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Critics United? Now, that's a throwback!-Also, adults bullying kids!

 Some of you, youngins, might not know who these people are. Just us old folks who had their start on FFN, which has been in a long-welcomed decline. I won't talk about my past fics on here mainly because they were God awful and not Fairy Tail, so not relevant. I never had a run in with CU (I am aware of what that means in Portuguese, so I'll use it because it's so fitting) thankfully, but I know many who weren't as lucky. Okay, CU was the moral police of FFN. FFN has some pretty weird rules about pretty harmless fics like no second pov, no audience interaction, no script fics, and no song lyrics. It's pretty dumb all in all. These were harmless. Admittedly, I could understand fics that were smut/spicy especially if they contained non-con or anything underaged. There was a separate site called Adult Fanfiction. Net for that and other sites as well. But song lyrics? Come on that's harmless. It should be noted that a lot of fics that including stuff like song lyri...
Read more

Fanfic Advice: How to deal with constructive criticism and flames.

 It is not easy to deal with bad feedback when you are a writer. There is a quote in Fairy Tail that sticks out to me where it says that being a writer is like showing the world your butt. And honest to god that's true. Whether it's traditionally published original work or fanfic, we writers really put a lot of our soul into our writing, and we are sharing something very personal with the world, so getting bad feedback or even-worse-outright flames can feel like a punch to the gut. Here's some advice on how to deal with it. I rarely get flamed, I will get constructive criticism (Which are two very different things, as I'll explain) but it's rare when someone gets outright rude to me. But not too long ago, I did get a review that opened with "-Not to be rude-" I 'love' it when people open with 'not to be rude' but then say something incredibly rude, as though saying that in the first place somehow negates the rudeness. I didn't read the ...
Read more

Raspberrysoda (Fanfic author of Fairy Tail fics on A03) Random Facts about me that nobody cares about.

Sex: Cisgender Female Orientation-Aromantic Asexual Race: White Eyes: Brown Hair: Dirty blonde Age: Millennial  Favorite Drink: Twining's French vanilla chai tea with oat milk  Favorite Food: Vanilla ice cream. Home: Alabama, USA Hobbies: Reading, fanfic writing. Favorite Anime: Fairy Tail  Favorite book: Invisible Life Addie LaRue Favorite Author: Brandon Sanderson. Favorite Movie: "Phantom of The Opera (2004) Favorite Animated movie: Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. Favorite Live Action TV: Mad Men. Favorite Disney Movie: Enchanted Favorite Disney Princess: Belle Favorite Season: Autumn Favorite Exercise: Walking Favorite animal: Dogs Favorite Music: I really, really like musicals.  Favorite Color: Green Fears: Tornados (Had a few too close calls with them) and Spiders (Hate them) Least Favorite Food: Whole tomatoes. I can't stand the texture. I'm very sensitive to texture in food. Least favorite Drink: Anything alcoholic. I hate alcohol.  Favorite Makeup Product: ...
Read more