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3 Months Of Writing On Medium
“Do this, don’t do that…” — The Five Man Electrical Band.
I have questions.
Three months ago wasn’t the first time I started writing on Medium.
The first story I published was on 12/5/2018. The next one came on 4/21/2019, and then it skips to 11/8/2019. There were a few others, but things didn’t kick into gear until 11/9/2020, with Reasons I Don’t Write.
The reason I could not get started was that I was a trainwreck. Underlying it all was the fact that I was an untreated manic person.
In 2017 I lost a job that I loved. In 2018, my partner of eight years broke up with me. I then moved halfway across the country to a city where I barely knew a soul. Eventually, I started a new job. Finally, in 2019, I lost my son, who died of suicide.
These have been challenging years.
One of these days, I’ll find the courage to read my earliest “work .” I think it will be a discombobulated series of what belongs in a journal. I know I could take them down, but I’ll leave them as a reminder of what a mess I was and how far I’ve come. Well, kinda…
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage”. — Georgia O’Keeffe
When I look back at what I have produced in the last three months, I still think of…
