Living with depression is hard, but over time you learn to recognize the patterns of it. For example. I struggle with endings. The end of the school year, the days leading up to my birthday, whenever I complete a writing project, and the end of the calendar year--all very hard for me. December rolls around, and I struggle. Because with every ending comes the need to look back over the past and to wonder whether it was worth it. Whether I accomplished anything. And as my mothe

It's November 30. NaNoWriMo is over, and I have finished with 55,523 words in a brand new novel. It's a start, but it's a messy start. It needs a lot of work before I can call it anything worth reading, and I am completely unmotivated to start the editing process. So that project is getting stuffed into a folder to be looked at later, and I am at a complete loss of what to do now. I have a few novel drafts that I could start editing, two are stories that are very near and dea