Ah, the joys of obsession. \u00a0You know them, don’t you? \u00a0When you start a project and in your head you’re thinking ‘this is cool, this project of mine, I’ll have fun with it’.<\/p>\n
Do you know what those phrases have in common?<\/p>\n
They all presume that ‘I’ am in control of the process.<\/p>\n
HA!<\/p>\n
I should know better. \u00a0I have cats after all. \u00a0The illusion of control is one that has been repeatedly stripped from me but still, hope lingers. \u00a0And it lingered in the taking on of the\u00a0NaNoWriMo<\/a> challenge. \u00a0My fiction persona,\u00a0Samantha Herne<\/a>, has taken over my life and it’s been write write write all the time. \u00a0As I type that I feel a little bit like the Mad Hatter.<\/p>\n That brings me comfort. \u00a0Which just goes to show that my world is a strange one.<\/p>\n But as disruptive as such obsessions are, I do believe there is something good in them. \u00a0There is a freeing, a releasing in giving yourself over completely to something you love. \u00a0With caveats of course for things like eating, sleeping and not killing or torturing people. \u00a0Well, live people. \u00a0I write fiction so tormenting people is something that I’m required to do. \u00a0Muwhahahaha. \u00a0Oh, sorry, outside cackle.<\/p>\n Regardless, I will be attempting to stay in better contact. \u00a0Because I know I’ve been a bad blogger and I will attempt to rectify that.<\/p>\n Abysmal Witch, out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, the joys of obsession. \u00a0You know them, don’t you? \u00a0When you start a project and in your head you’re thinking ‘this is cool, this project of mine, I’ll have fun with it’. Do you know what those phrases have in common? They all presume that ‘I’ am in control of the process. HA! I … Continue reading Lost in Fantasyland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}