where iāve been + the future of dtcfdp
hello friends. welcome back to chaos.
cw: medical issues (brain-related injury and long covid)
letās start with 2020. everyone was burnt out by the end of 2020, but considering the amount of fic i wrote as well as the fact that I created an entire creative writing portfolio from scratch that year, i sorta crashed twice as hard as was necessary.
2021 was consumed with my first year of my masters program. i got a job! i had to quit that job because school was more important to me and i was falling behind. i started a lot of projects that i wasnāt able to keep up with. it got to the point where i couldnāt even find time to write for school assignments, let alone for fun, let alone for fanfiction.
so that brings us to 2022 (hell year: this time itās personal). i got covid. i threw out my thesis that iād been working on for a year the same week. a few weeks later, i passed out and hit my head
two weeks later i fell and hit my head a second time. i spent the night in the hospital. iāve got long covid, they think thatās whatās making me pass out. iām still trying to figure out whatās going on with the whole passing-out-thing but iām doing better. (mostly)
i still canāt read or write the same way i could before i fell. itās slower going. I type and say the wrong words sometimes. most of my writing is done with dictation and considering the content of my fanfic...yeah, dictating thatās a little weird lmao, especially with thin walls and roommates.Ā
so that brings me to dtcfdp: most of it was written in 2020. iāve been adding bits and pieces here and there for the past two years, but honestly, most of itās done. i want to get it out thereāthere are two chapters left, and then an epilogue. the epilogue is the only thing that remains completely unwritten. chapter 8ā²s done, in fact, but it ends on such a painful cliffhanger (worse than chapter 7ā²s cliffhanger, trust me) that i donāt want to post chapter 8 without chapter 9. (because I know how frustrating it is to wait...and yāall have been waiting so long.)
the story will be complete enough once I finish chapter 9. the epilogueās just fun stuff. iām hoping youāll see it soon, but like i said, itās slower going than before i fell and iām running out of summer break.Ā
thanks for listening to this ramble. thanks for reaching out to me over the past few years, even when i wasnāt answering. itās been a rough time.
but hereās to (pretty girls who went to our heads) better days ahead. hereās to making it through these years. hereās to more chaos.