Hello, everyone. I hope no one is in the path of Matthew. And if so I hope you are safe. I took a week off to rest after the first round of funding ended. But I’m back on the game again. Hopefully we can reach our goal this time around. There are many ways you can help: by referring it to your own following base or Twitter or Facebook page. If you know anyone who like fantasy, paranormal romance please refer them. Paranormal romance is not all romance. It’s unlike Harlequin.com. It’s a lot more like "Supernatural" if you were to put a couple in it who didn’t get killed. No, I didn’t get any of the ideas from "Supernatural," it was written at least five to six years before the series first aired.The earliest notes were written in 1999..

Thank you.

Hey everyone! I’ve seen a lot of new followers in the last few days. Welcome. As I said in previous updates, I’m preparing to hunker down and finish the novel over NaNoWriMo. My job should be picking up in intensity during the Christmas season, so we’ll see if I can squeeze time in to write. I’ll keep you all in the loop as far as the progress goes.

Last week’s Q&A went well. Only a couple of people stopped in to ask questions, but they were good ones. Me and Atticus (my kitten) enjoyed answering what was thrown out there.

I’d love to see some more recommendations from those who have backed the book. Those recommendations get seen by everyone, and can be as little as a single sentence. I appreciate it!

FROM THE BLOG DIARY OF EMILY HUNTER

Entry #8: August 8, 2013

That was embarrassing.  So I feel like I have some splaining to do.

First of all, I don’t always make the best decisions. 

My medication doesn’t mix well with alcohol.  For this reason I don’t drink.  Normally.

Not sure why, because it’s all pretty hazy, but for some reason, I decided to break that rule.  I feel like someone asked me to go out with them, but I can’t remember who.  I honestly can’t imagine who it would be.  Probably someone from work.  Two days are a bit of a blur.  Actually "blur" isn’t the correct term.  A wash is more like it.  I don’t remember really any of it.

I did a pill count, and I didn’t take my meds for five days (I know I missed a few doses, I didn’t realize it was that many.)  The first thing I remember is waking up this morning at 5am in a bed at Malcolm Crisis Unit.  Apparently my mom took me there.  She has found my blog as I had feared.  (Just kidding mom.)  Dr. Harper met us there.  I had an emergency shot of haloperidol, and stayed for observation for a night. I just got home two hours ago.  

Mom said she called me after finding my blog, and I answered crying, begging her to let me come home from the hospital.  Apparently I thought I was back at Sandy Shores.

Great.  Now I have to explain that.  I promise I will.  Let me finish this train of thought first.

So she came to pick me up from my apartment.  I wouldn’t let her in.  She said I thought she was a rapist and I wouldn’t let her into the door. (That’s new.)  So I called 911 from inside the apartment and said some man was trying to get in and hurt me again.

Now I must take a break here, because I know what you might be thinking.  I suffered some molestation or trauma as a child and suppressed it, and that’s where all my issues started.  And after reading this series of events, I’d start thinking that too.  Never happened.  I’ve never even been touched in a weird way.  My parents were pretty protective, almost to a fault.  This rape fear is just a paranoid thing, I’m sure.  And I honestly don’t know why I said "again."  Not only have I never been assaulted, I’ve never even been scared of it in this way before.  If you’re looking for things to make sense while I’m completely decomped, good luck.  I was convinced I killed a staff member at Sandy Shores, and was going to prison for the rest of my life. (Again, more on this later.)  I also had a paranoid fear that I’d become a suicide bomber after watching the news during the Iraq War.  I’d have panic attacks about it.

Anyway, the police show up and see my mom outside the door.  She explains the situation, they see she’s not a big man trying to break in.  They cut the chain on my door and bring me to crisis services.  The rest is history.  Blurry, blurry history.

So.  Sandy Shores.  Here we go.

Sandy Shores is a residential mental health facility.  I lived there for a few years starting when I was 21.  The reason why is a source of controversy, but being that this is my blog, and I was the only one there, it was because I was in an accident.  That’s all.  Nothing more than that, despite what my parents think.

So anyway, I was there for a while.  I met some really interesting people.  The food was terrible, and usually cold.  The staff were horrible assholes.  Seriously, they sucked at life.  Not all of them, I’m not being fair.  A couple were nice.  Not enough of them though.  I could go on.  I won’t.  They were the worst people.  I’ll assume you understand.

Anyway, I was there for about five years until I was no longer deemed a suicide risk, (again, it was an accident, I was never a suicide risk), and I got my own apartment in a supported independent living environment.  I had to check in everyday, go to a central office, (which was just another apartment in the complex,) to get my meds everyday.  I could have visitors and even overnights if I cleared it with the office first.  After being there for a while, I was able to move to the apartment I have now, all on my own. 

When I got out of Sandy Shores, I started seeing Dr. Winchcombe again.  (He was my psych doctor before the accident, and my parents decided it wasn’t in "my best interest" to see him anymore after that.  But being that I could make my own decisions, I went back to him.)  Eventually and unfortunately, he transferred me to Dr. Harper who specializes in "odd" cases of schizophrenia.  (No offense Dr. Harper.  I just liked Dr. Winchcombe a lot. He also was the first person to look past my diagnosis and see I was originally misdiagnosed, instead of reading my file and just assuming he knew me. I wish I still saw him sometimes, but I blew it.)

So, that pretty much brings you up to speed on my life.  The relevant details at least.  I see Dr. Harper every week, take my meds myself (mostly.)

And I’ll give Dr. Harper some credit.  Her idea for me to write this stuff out is helping I think.  It doesn’t always feel like it, but I think I got a lot out this week.  I feel a little lighter.  I’m smiling.  That’s got to count for something, right?

Okay, that’s good.  I have to clean my apartment now.

Adios,
Emily

All, thank you for your support. It was much appreciated for this project although it was never listed for funding.  The one which I did have up for funding "Clash with the Immortals"  funding ends today and I would like to thanks all of you who placed an order showing your commitment in helping this book see publication. It means the world to me.  But the good news is we aren’t finish ,yet.  The side book to "Clash with the Immortals"  is still being funded. For those who like lighter, more whimsical type of Fantasy. "The Time before Time" was written a year after "Clash with the Immortals." It’s about mythical worlds predating our own. It’s about the worlds of the Immortals and where they came from. It’s talks about the days before the Immortals became the ancient gods and goddesses. The days before their fall from grace and becoming cruel and petty. It’s about when they were nice and living in magical kingdoms and what happened to those kingdoms and why they came here to bother humans. LOL!

Seriously, thus. again, I tried to remain within the boundaries of how the ancient texts described them and their worlds.

https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-time-before-time--b1cf7d

All, thank you for the support.

"Clash with the Immortals" funding ends today and I would like to thanks all of you who placed an order showing your commitment in helping this book see publication. It means the world to me.  But the good news is we aren’t finish ,yet.  The side book to "Clash with the Immortals"  is still being funded. For those who like a lighter, more whimsical type of Fantasy. "The Time before Time" was written a year after "Clash with the Immortals." It’s about mythical worlds predating our own. It’s about the worlds of the Immortals and where they came from. It’s talks about the days before the Immortals became the ancient gods and goddesses. The days before their fall from grace and becoming cruel and petty. It’s about when they were nice and living in magical kingdoms and what happened to those kingdoms and why they came here to bother humans. LOL!

Seriously, thus. again, I tried to remain within the boundaries of how the ancient texts described them and their worlds.

https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-time-before-time--b1cf7d