Hello there Writes Readers,
You may have noticed that I have been a bit silent on the blog recently, I promise that this was not intentional and I’m going to have to sort of explain my life a bit to get across what’s been going on.
I said from the start that I didn’t want this blog to be about my life and how much toast I have eaten, but my life has changed a lot this year and this goes to explain why I’ve been AWOL this month. I’ve not been well at all this year, spending the first 8 months of it in and out of hospital for tests. Then in the summer I lost my job. Which in some ways was a blessing as it forced me to evaluate my life and priorities. My number one priority for the remainder of 2013 was to look after myself. I started writing They’re Here and I created this blog, both of which have really helped in balancing my life. Since shortly before losing my job I started a course of medication, which helped but in recent months the side effects started to really get to me. Last month my doctor and I decided to see how I would be without medication for a month. Short version is that I’ve felt much better for it, I have a lot more energy and as such have been spending more time out of the house (I also started a new job) and less time at the computer. So, while I’m being a terrible blogist for not keeping up with my writing and posts, what I’m making up for in feeling happy is very important to me.
My doctor is pleased with how I’m getting on, and while I feel the best I have felt all year, I’m still far from feeling perfectly well. There is a fog of illness that I feel on the cusp of all the time and I am very conscious that I need to take care of myself.
I’m not stopping the blog, and I hope you will be happy to continue to read what I’m writing. The December short story vote is up (https://ardavidsonwrites.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/short-story-voting-december/), so please go and vote for one of those very Newt-centric stories. The voting will be up until Boxing Day and I aim to have the November and December stories up by the end of the year.
So that’s me. Happy but absent. I think there’ll be a post on Monday and then that might be it for 2013 until I post the short stories.
I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year.
– Andrew
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