mental health
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I apologize in advance for these scattershot thoughts. In just a few days, I will officially be between jobs. It’s not something I envisioned for my career, but I have to move forward as best I can. For all my earlier talk of resolve, it either failed me when I needed it or else it…
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As one might intuit from the title, I’ve been generally distracted the last few weeks by the men’s World Cup. Having played soccer in my youth (at the YMCA), I came to be a fan of the sport. It comforts my little ADHD brain to have it on, whether in the background or as a…
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A progress update on the second draft of my novel: I’ve finished chapter 6. By my current chapter outline, I only have 19 more to go. Cue the upside-down smiley face emoji. The second draft is already at 28k words, so there’s probably not a very good chance that the whole thing will come in…
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I had hoped to post another short story by now, but instead I’ve been pushing through a particularly bad episode of depression. I’m doing what I can to stay ahead of it with medication and therapy. And I’ve had talks with loved ones about it. Would that it wasn’t the case, but mental health is…
Marc Rivers, Author 