Lexical Gap No. 16: Ikigai

So maybe I'm a full time writer now?

last stop

I am coming in riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight under the wire for May but I swore I would send a monthly newsletter, and doggonnit, I'm going to get one out this month, even if it's the second to last day of it. My most sincere apologies for falling down on, well, everything, but things have been...upended for me, to say the least.

I've resigned my day job.

I'm not sure what I feel about this, to be honest. This past week, I wrote a post for Pub(lishing) Crawl about burnout and creativity, where I confessed that my well had run dry. As the readers of my newsletter know, I've written about deadline despair, about bipolar disorder, and about other struggles I had been having, but it's one thing to talk about them and another entirely to do something about them.

It all came to a head at the day job. I had asked for several extensions on Shadowsong, but when yet another deadline had come and gone and I only had half a book to show for it, I had a nervous breakdown. I couldn't. I just cou…