Scribbled Fiction

Oh hi. It's been a minute. Opening up Blogger again this morning was wild. Do you have any idea how long it's been since I actively blogged here? 4 years. It's been 4 years. Honestly? It felt good to be here, not entirely unlike a childhood home. Scrolling through and looking around, I felt the same old excitement to write a post, and it felt good. The interface is still familiar. Oh look! There are even some old drafts in here. I wonder what thoughts I had that I didn't publish--Oh. Right. 21-year-old Bethany was going through it. I'm glad to report that I'm now free of many of the health and life issues I was navigating back then. I'm 25 now, and life is very different from what I expected it to be at 21. How have you been? Some of you made the transition over to my Instagram and newsletter and such, but how about the rest of you? What have you been up to in the last 4 years? I've been up to a lot of things, actually.       I published the first book i...