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[galadhir]

I have just joined Bluesky, but it does seem to be very worthy and very focused on the big issues of real life, so I don't know how long I'll last over there.

I'm doing it again already, spreading myself too thin. That's it now. No other sites of social media allowed. I already know I can't keep up with one, let alone two. (Or three, in fact, since my non-writing real life friends and activities are all on Facebook.)

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[galadhir]

I have to admit that of all the social media sites I've been on, the ones I miss most are Livejournal and Mastodon. So now I'm on Dreamwidth, which is like LJ, and maybe going back to Mastodon is a good idea. I've still got my account there. I'll try it! Thank you :)

Also are you not writing any more? Is that a deliberate decision or are you too in the grips of the m/m burnout?

[julesjones]

Medical problems. I had severe RSI for several years which made it almost impossible to write. I had a short period when I'd recovered enough to do some writing, and then my normal mild monthly migraine flipped into *severe* migraine continuously for a year and a half, followed by another year and a half of merely having it most of the time. I actually wrote large chunks of two novels during the three months I was off on sick leave, all on paper, because there was very little else I could do. Monitors and TVs *hurt* to look at. Then I finally managed to crawl back to work, but didn't have the spoons to write and hold down a full time job. I'm doing a lot better now, and did finish one of those novels a year or so back, and was about to submit it to an agent when Trump happened. And AI...

[galadhir]

Oh dear that sounds terrible! I've had weeklong migraines before and they were bad enough. I can't fathom what it must have been like to have them continuously for two years. I'm so sorry that happened to you and very glad that it's over. And yeah, you'd have to be superhuman to write with all of that and a full time job.

Trump (and Brexit over here) really put a spanner in my desire to write too. Somehow it didn't feel worthwhile any more, in a world where that could happen. But then I reminded myself that Tolkien wrote LotR in the middle of a war against Nazis, and I would never say that wasn't worthwhile. I think people may need human writers even more, in fact, even if it's yet harder for us to be found.