Roughly 2 months after my last update on here, my mother passed away suddenly. What would have been her birthday just passed a few weeks ago. It's been a rough couple of months so far, and Mother's Day is coming up soon as well which I know will also be hard.
My mom was one of my biggest fans of my writing and actually read all of my stories on here.
The last time I would ever see her was at my wedding in October 2019. As we all know shortly after that in 2020 the pandemic happened, and that ended up preventing me from visiting her all the way up to her passing.
Even then, during that weekend of my wedding, she asked me when I was going to write more on multiple occasions. I kept saying I want to but I just can't find the motivation to, and also what I explained to you guys in my last update. But, somewhere in my mind I thought that yes, someday I would finish writing something new to be able to share with my mom, because I knew she'd be so excited to read anything I wrote.
Of course, we never know what the future holds, or when someone will be taken from us. The easy thing is to keep putting something off and saying 'someday'. But now that someday will never come.
I need to start writing again, as this has been a rude awakening for me that I can't just keep putting it off, and it also would be a great release for me probably for a lot of different things.
That being said, this writing will likely be totally different than what I have done before. I won't be revisiting old stories or the same characters; I can't really say what it will be until I have the pen in hand so to speak. Whatever it ends up being, if it's not to your liking, don't feel bad for passing it up. It's just something I feel I need to do, for me.
Regardless, thank you again to everyone who continues to read my old material, and the people still discovering it to this day for the first time. It's truly been a journey.
-Neil
