Hello There
Personally, I’m not a Star Wars fanatic but I do enjoy Ewan McGregor’s Obi Wan and his Lumière in Beauty and the Beast so I’ll use the popular greeting as my inaugural post’s title.
Welcome to the place on the website where I, Skylar, muse about what’s been going on in my brain. I know you probably rolled your eyes at the pun. But when your last name is as cool as mine, you have to be able to insert it in as many jokes as possible. Right? Right, so, let’s board the train together and see where the tracks will lead. However, be aware that the carriage does jump the rails on occasion and we will be lost in the weeds as the thought makes its way back to the tracks. With that warning in place, let’s get going.
As it is emblazoned on each page of the website (and in the URL), my name’s Skylar and I’m a writer by hobby. Maybe one day I can add “by trade” but that all depends on how much content I produce that gets published. Right now, the content is high but the published content is low (aka zero). No matter, though. I am hopeful that someone will bite and I will be published in some capacity other than the posts on this blog.
Speaking of the blog, the train is back on its rails and we are heading in the direction to answer the first question to what these posts will be about. Other than a place for me to make endless jokes about my last name, this place will be a landing spot for what I’ve been ruminating on and will be an exercise in self-discipline to ensure that I keep writing and don’t fall into the holes of “I’ll do it tomorrow” or “I’ll start on Monday.” As someone who thrived in undergrad with writing their papers on the day they were due (while having weeks and/or months to finish the product), I grew the horrid habit of procrastinating until the deadlines were looming and then produced essays minutes before the clock ticked down to zero. An unfortunate side effect of being an excellent writer is that none of these papers ever got less than an A-, so the habit never seemed like a bad thing. It was just my superpower. Fast forward five years after graduation, I was diagnosed with ADHD and realized I only did well because the anxiety levels from the fear of failure overrode the ADHD impulse to keep putting off the essay and I banged out a great paper to turn in by the skin of my teeth. My superpower was actually my downfall and I needed to learn to not depend on the anxiety levels of imminent deadlines to get any work done. The work to rewrite my brain’s reward system from the high of “Due today, do today” to “Do this in bite-sized manageable increments” is not going to be easy and this is why I’m trying to adhere to a bi-monthly posting for this blog.
If you’ve read this far, you and I have reached the first destination on our train of thought’s journey. Although I am not perfect and know I will fail at some points, change will happen. It’s not easy work but the work is worth it. So, dear reader, please come back twice a month for updates on my current musings and how I’m doing with defeating the old reward system. Either way, I promise there will be at least one terrible joke per post and you’ll at least get one good nose exhale out of my ramblings.
Until then.
*insert waving emoji here*
