#zjo writes

it’s definitely the most creatively productive period I’ve had in years and years, continuing a theme that’s been present since the end of July where I write and write and just keep writing. It feels good - it feels really good - but I’m aware that I have a bit of an obsessive personality with a streak of mania (or something, idk what to call it), so I do have to be careful that writing fic is not becoming just literally my entire world, which is kind of a bummer. I’ve also only just realized in the last week or so that part of the reason that I have all this time and energy to put into writing this much these days is that we put our sick, old, cat who was taking literal hours of care every day (not to mention the emotional and mental bandwidth of dealing with him) to sleep back in June, and... since he’s gone, I can do things again. This is, of course, bittersweet. 

There’s also a part of my janky brain that feels like I’ve failed: I didn’t make it to 50k. I didn’t get that second bingo. I could have- I was real close, but I’ve been feeling half-sick on and off for a couple weeks now (dunno if it’s too much turkey or what), and this week my anxiety decided to flare up with a vengeance, which means I’ve been clinging to functionality rather than trying to push myself to do optional things. But, I was close, and I didn’t get there, ergo- it feels like failure. 

What can you do? Bodies suck and brains are weird.

For your convenience, a quick link list of fics I published in November:

because it is my heart (sequel to bitter, bitter)

Voltron Coffee (can you believe I’d never written a coffeeshop fic?)

The Art of Hoping (soulmates. I think I really like this one, actually.)

Watch for Me by the Moonlight (a re-imagining of that one poem.)

Accio Spero (because apparently Harry Potter AUs are a thing.)

Bread does not nourish me (I just need my boys to take care of each other.)

I’ve got plenty of other things to work on, but if you’d like to see those three fics that nearly made it under the bingo wire, please feel free to say so. I could use the encouragement, because I’m sure the temptation will be to ignore them in favor of other projects that have either deadlines or are shinier, but I don’t really want to leave them unfinished and alone.