For The Past Few Days, We've Been In A Truce Here. Just Not Talking About What's Going On, Since Without

I'm currently working on a story, but my motivation to write has been pretty low lately. I think the general lack of interest from my friends and family (only my mom is willing to read it currently) is part of the reason why. I'm new to writing as a hobby, and not having anyone to get unbiased feedback from leaves me feeling like my work isn't that great, I think.

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I'm very close to reaching a third of my projected chapter amount, but it's looking like I'm going to need more chapters.

My country is beginning to burn, and my family is roasting marshmallows over its corpse.

They called me crazy when I pointed out what's going on. Told me that it's all fake, and that "they were saying the same thing when Biden was in office."

I hate being the only only one who sees what's happening. I hate being the only one who cares.

I got in an argument with my mother this morning. The context isn't really important, just know it was over it was over politics. But there is one important part that told me what kind of person she is.

I brought up how ICE is targeting schools, and how there's a very good chance that they're taking anyone who looks "foreign". I mentioned that a boy we know could be taken, because he's mixed but looks mexican.

She asked me why I cared so much. She asked me why I cared so much about a boy who's been part of the family since he was a few months old being taken away.

We're not even a month in, and I'm already so tired.

I've recently passed 10,000 words in my original story. I honestly wasn't expecting to ever actually reach that number, and I still have so many chapters to go.

After getting to almost 20k words, I've realized something rather fundamental about my story.

I don't even know what genre it is.

I've got the entire story for an original story thought out, I'm making progress on actually writing it, albeit slow progress. The main problem I'm finding is that whenever I want to share the progress I'm happy with, everyone I know is either busy, or "will read it when it's done", which my brain interprets as disinterest and just stomps my motivation into the cold, unrelenting earth.

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I've got so many scene ideas, but I'm a linear writer, so I regularly have to put them back on the conveyer belt for later.