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I've been sick... and other current events

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I've been sick... and other current events

I’ve been pretty sick since the end of February. I didn’t really start to feel better until the beginning of this month. I even had to go to the hospital, so no really creative stuff got done. I was hoping to do Camp Nano this month but it didn’t end up happening. I decided after all that, that I would take a small break from the editing I was doing on the novel I finished last Summer. I will talk a little about what my plans are for the upcoming months in this post.

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NaNOWriMo Results!!

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I won NANO this year, I ended up with about 52,000 words on my draft of my Dark Academia YA Thriller. It was a crazy month but I achieved my goal. I have continued to write even after hitting my goal, but I’m not going at such a feverish pace anymore. I am especially proud of myself because I have had such limited time to write and I still made it! I think I’m going to try to finish the first draft by August 2022. I still have another book that is heading into its second draft to work on, I plan on working on that in late winter or early spring.

I have really fallen in love with the characters I’ve been writing about, but I do find I’m at a place that has been a little more difficult to write. I also see there are some plot inconsistencies that need to be worked through. But I think overall this draft is much smoother than the one I wrote this summer. That draft needs a lot of help. A TON OF HELP! I feel like the pacing is better in my Nano project too, so I’m hoping that by practicing so much I’m learning a lot!

I am also selling physical signed copies of the book I released in October, Sugar High Angels. If you are interested in buying a signed copy it is available here. If you want a personal message just send a message after purchase. Of course, the book is also still available in all the normal spaces online. I am very happy with the feedback I have gotten from this book and the support has been beyond what I ever could have imagined. Overall things have been going pretty well in the writing sphere.

More Later, Take care of yourself and stay safe

BOOK RELEASE! 10-31-21

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Sugar High Angels

By Aisling Black

RELEASING:

OCTOBER 31st 2021

My new book is coming out on October 31st this year! I am very excited to release this to the world. I wrote this book after being inspired by Rachel Oates Poetry discussion videos. I don’t know if this is really a poetry book though, but I guess that’s the closest definition it fits into. I do mostly free verse and micro-stories, but there are some journal entries and haiku.

The main themes of this collection are mental illness and memories. I wanted to write a book where I describe some of the symptoms and hallucinations I have been through having schizoaffective disorder. I really hope though that the words work for many types of people. I wanted to be open about some of my symptoms to kind of normalize talking about the more strange or uncomfortable things I have been through. I also wanted to tie in memories that really left a mark on me. If you chose to support me I cannot thank you enough, and please leave a review, even if it is a bad review! I’ve got some other projects coming up, but mostly I will be working on my NANO project for the rest of 2021.

Have a nice day!

-A