Once again I find
myself at the birthday of my website, another year has passed and in
that time, I have done various things and am now taking the time to
mull over what a few of those things were.
Thanks to an
opportunity through Geek Syndicate, I managed to get a couple of my
articles on the blog portion of the Huffington Post website. (These
were: Gaming Rituals and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Version 2.0).
I’ve continued to write and edit for the guys at Geek Syndicate,
including a timely Xmas article about Mindful Bingewatching, and hope
to continue doing so for a long time to come.
My fiction “Unravelled”
made it into the Irrational Fears anthology from FTB Press. This was
another nice milestone for me as it was someone else publishing some
of my fiction and paying me for the privilege.
I’ve reviewed lots
more dark ambient music and, as always, I am thankful to the people
who send me their creations to listen to. Alongside heavy metal, dark
ambient is my other music genre of choice.
I wrote a number of
articles for ME/CFS website Foggy Friends which looked at
mindfulness, electronic relaxation aids and ASMR. This was a nice
change of pace for me and they were topics that I found very interesting
and relatively easy to write about, as they fall into areas I already
have a fair amount of knowledge
about.
I’ve seen some great
live metal bands: Coal Chamber, Soil, Skindred, Crossfaith, and most
recently, Machine Head.
I’ve also lost a few
stone in weight and seem to have stamped out a lot of my more minor
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder behaviors, even though certain large
areas of anxiety still remain, so it’s some progress at least. It’s
a shame my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is still a total fucker however.
I don’t have specific
hopes for the year to come as I’m sure it will be shit in ways I
can’t imagine, and good in other ways I can’t imagine, so why
bother trying. I just hope I can progress and get my writing to a
higher level in the ways that matter.
Thanks for reading, and if you know anyone looking for a freelance writer, particularly in the areas mentioned, please send them a link to my website, that would be amazing.
