Howdy!

(Note I originally wrote this journal entry for another journal of mine. Hence the beginning paragraph, but I wanted to share it here too.)

I am not sure how much I mention it, but I do suffer from clinical depression. It is something I have learned to cope with. It does affect my life and what I do though and one of the things I do is write. Often it only moderately affects my correspondence and perhaps to a slightly greater extent my journal writing and forum participation. But it does greatly effect my other writing.

I mention this now because I started writing another novel last June the day before my birthday on the 18th. I got a fair amount of work done on it blocking out the plot and an outline and considering the setting and main character. I also had a good idea on the overall feeling of the novel. However not too long after my birthday my depression deepened and I have been blocked and nearly unable to write a thing on the book. Some ideas did come to me but I wasn't really able to get them down.

For that matter life slowed down to a crawl.

However talking with my Doctor we changed my treatment a bit and things seemed to have improved significantly and I am pleased to report that I have been able to get back to writing again! It came to me as I was finally able to get out to do some of the chores I hadn't been able to get around to out and about the town and on the bus I was able to sit and ponder the plot, character, setting and story. The ideas started to come once more and flow. Then once more when I had a few minutes here and there I was able to work on the novel in my head. It was very constructive and when I got home I was able to put my thoughts down on my computer.

Last night I had a very productive night's work writing and was up again this morning!

I am happy for more reasons than the obvious. I was excited about this story idea when I had it and those friends whom I have shared the story idea with could feel my excitement with the story and shared in it. It is a story that I want to share with others. It is a fantasy novel and no great work of prose or academic tome – but it is a story I think that many will enjoy and they won't be able to until I get it written and get someone to publish it. That shan't happen unless I get it typed out and finished will it.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that tidbit!

Oh! I have two working titles for it - “Skyfall” and “Falling”. Somehow I think I recall a science fiction story or novel by the first name. I rather prefer “Falling” though, but of course, it might be taken.

I should get back to the writing!

~ Darrell