Lessi Varaveti!
For the past few days, I've been happily working on a a writing project, but half the time I don't know if my steady progress has been because of my innate tendency for hyperfocus, or if it's from the new meds I'm on. These meds are to help me focus, but they're short-term acting, meaning they last for about 4-6 hours.
My project started with rereading the chaotic first draft of the story, which...I technically hadn't quite finished. It needed a proper ending. By the time I got to it, I was able to figure out how to wrap it up, and was remembering how much I liked the story. The characters are fun, and some are...intensely stubborn. And while the story had some really good bones, it still needed some help.
So, after rereading the entire story, and cleaning it up for some friends to read, I let my brain take a break. That was a mistake, apparently. Having had a taste of a project, but not actively working on something, I ended up bored and restless. So I started up a new Scrivener project (writing program designed by and for authors), and started worldbuilding.
Now, every time I sit down to work on the story, it's hard to tell if my 4k words a day is from the focusing meds, or because I'm so excited to have something to work on. This second version of the story is turning out much more detailed, much richer, and I'm quite pleased. Regardless of the meds, I'm happy to have something to work on that takes up so much energy. (I gotta use it somehow haha)
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What's your current project?
~Love, Viv
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