Poems, Prose, and Self Publishing as an Autistic adult.

My New Years goal is to Write my heart out on the page and hit publish as many times as I can!

Hello Medium friends and fellow writers — I have decided on a few moves forward for 2024. I had an epiphany in 2019 and I am feeling the ripple effects still. I realized then that I wanted to “be” a writer my whole life but never considered myself one because of the amount of time I allotted to writing versus the amount of time I spent “dreaming” of being one. So I made a choice to sit down with my laptop and write out what would become “Jaded Savior”, my first published blog about Mental health and trauma.

The truth is all that separated me from being a writer and where I was at then was the simple act of RITUAL. AKA doing the damn thing. Ironic, right?

But today I sit here at the end of 2023 with a similar realization. That I want to be self published. Not just through a blog I self host or my Medium account. Not just through the digital fantasy themed workbooks I have created this past year. I mean BINDED. PRINTED. TANGIBLE. REAL.

I want people to be able to cozy up on their couch with a blanket and crack open the book I wrote physically in their hands.

The only thing that has stopped me so far is me. I have written so many blog posts, poems, prose, stories (fiction and non fiction) over the years but never put any collection together into a printed book. The closest I have gotten was when I sold a digital book I designed and wrote in called “Death & Coffee” containing creative poems + short stories about depression, anxiety, and what I NOW KNOW are Neurodivergent experiences.

This year I am going to do it. I am going to self publish and sell my books. Not just one but multiple. I have so much passion and written out material, the skillset to complete the project, and the resources to have them made up. So this is my New Years goal for 2024. And I hope you will support me on this journey, as well as learn from the tidbits I share here on Medium!

Below I am sharing some of my writing to get myself started — because I do not want to wait til’ 2024 to make writing for the sake of my passion for it a “January 1st” kind of…