Where have you been?

No updates. No news about updates. No words from the author. You must have thought I was dead or had abandon all my stories entirely, right? If you did, it is understadable. I should have maybe updated you on what happened with me, why I didn't update, and if there even would be any updates at all. 

So why haven't I been updating? 
I have been trying to get ahold of my life and myself after being lost for many, many years. One day I was stading in front of the mirror and looked at myself and realized that I didn't recognized who I was. And from then I started cutting off things in my life that got in the way of being myself. Storywriting that had been one of the things that I used as an escape to not face reality ended up being one of them. So no writing meant no updates. 

And why didn't I tell anyone about it? 
I actually thought no one that read my stories cared. I thought people only cared about the stories. So me telling them what was really going on was out of the question. Why should I tell people about what I go through if they don't really care? And a bit of me thought that if I wrote a long explanation as to why no updates are happening, some people might think that instead of putting time into writing that, I could have put time into writing an update. So yeah, I didn't tell anyone about it. 

So....will there be updates now? 
I honestly don't know. For the past year, maybe more, I haven't felt any creativity to write. I couldn't come up with things to write even if I had wanted to. As of now, I don't think writing would be good for me, at least not fictional stories. As I said earlier, I used storywriting to escape reality, and right now I'm in need to be presence in my life. There are things in my life that I would like to avoid and escape from, but I can't do it. I have to face them to actually be free from them. I do however use fictional stories, like games, movies, books, tvshows, to get a break from the things I'm dealing with. And maybe I can use that time to write, but I haven't felt like doing that, I haven't felt like I want to deal with the stress I experience when I hit a road block when I write that I don't know how to get around. So I just don't write. But maybe, maybe if I one day feel like I have the energy and time to put into storywriting I might do it. But we will see. I'm not promising anything. 

So what am I doing now? 
As I said earlier, I'm trying to find myself again. I am trying things to see if I like them or not, and I'm trying to spend time doing things that I do like. I'm also trying to get healthy. Main focus is my mental health right now. After that I might put more focus on my physical health. I'm also trying to build up a life that I want and that I can be happy with. 

Are you writing anything at all? 
Yes, I am writing. I am writing about things I experience in my life. My opinion about things, and more stuff like that.

Can we read what you write? 
Yeah...if you find the place where I post it...Kidding. If you really want to have the link, I will give it to you. Just send me a message. 

Is this a goodbye? 
It depends. If you want to stick around and wait for me to update, it is not a goodbye. But if you don't want to wait, which is completely understandable, it might turn into a goodbye. 


And yeah....that is my explanation about where I have been and what I'm doing. If you have more questions you can ask. I will try to answer all of them. 

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rozea22 #1
I can't say I fully understand what you're going through but I do fully understand if you don't give us updates. I hope that you're finding yourself and that whatever else you're going through, no matter how hard it is, please try to believe that you'll get through it at some point. Maybe not now but eventually. I don't know you but if you want/need someone to talk to,I'm here. Please stay strong. X
MonkeyPunch #2
I'm surprised no one has read this. I'm surprised I read this just now. If you come back to this site and is reading this then yes, I would like that link please. You are one of my favorite fan fiction authors and I don't know if you'll believe me, but I care about the author as much if not more than the story. In fact, I read fan fiction because it's more "raw" and unfiltered than published books. For me it gives more of the author. Some of the authors I've met here have become my good friends and.. haha if you want to I would also like to be your friend. I'm also in Europe now. So yeah I was curious way way way~ before to know who wrote such poignant words I mildly searched about you LOL. See? I totally care.

Of course, I used stories to escape too, both writing them (I have works here as practice but you wouldn't probably like them) and reading them. And you might find it insensitive for me to say, but I understand what you felt because there have also been several times before when I looked at the mirror and didn't recognize myself. So I think it was courageous of you to leave behind things that you use to escape and face reality. It's not easy, I would know because when that decision happened to me as well, I felt lost and for lack of better words.. broken. I felt that I couldn't fix myself because I didn't know what I was fixed. Of course that perspective has somewhat changed now, I'm better I suppose, still, I can say being in reality can still be both painful, tiring yet also beautiful. I know you already know that. So.. yes I would like the link please and the friendship if you'll allow it. Sorry for my late message.