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Month In Review: November 2016
This past month, I took a break from the blog and social media, continued from October. I’d like to say that it made my life better, but it didn’t make much of a difference. A lot of other factors...
View Article15 Months of Birth Control And Why I Stopped
I started oral contraceptives—birth control pills—in September 2015, and stopped in the third week of November 2016. I was on Alesse’s 21-day packet that included 7 days “off” that lacked the hormonal...
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Bullet Journal Notebook Follow-up Review
Well, this book only lasted 3 months and I’m preparing to start a new 7 x 10 inch book (from the same company) in 2017. For December, I’m not going to be doing bullet journaling to the degree I did the...
View ArticleLast Day of University Classes Ever
I feel like I’m being born again. Or, rather, I’m approaching a rebirth. I’ll come out screaming, crying, and helpless, but with more knowledge and contextual fear than any infant that ever existed....
View ArticleI’m Not Doing Great
This is a spontaneous blog post. But I’m not doing the greatest lately. I’d say since my rabbit died. PTSD makes events like death, loss of other forms, and stress a whole heap harder. This hasn’t been...
View ArticleMonth In Review: December 2016
December flew by. This month, I finished all of my classes for university and have officially completed my transcript! I won’t have my diploma until June 2017, but… I’m done university!!! I’m so...
View Article2017: Beginning
This will be the first January I spend out of school. Not only university, which I just finished, but any type of school. I started kindergarten in the 90s and have been in some sort of education...
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Therapy Diary: Mindfulness
When I was in therapy last year, my counsellor told me that the goal for our sessions would be creating mindfulness. There were a number of ways we worked through being aware of my body and my...
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Thoughts On Being Transgender
I’ve hesitated posting this, because it’s part of my identity that I’m still… coming to terms with. The whole reality of gender identity and gender expression and biological sex—it’s a mess in my head,...
View ArticleChanging Identities
This isn’t going to be a deep, profound, or philosophical post about my personal identity. It’s about my online usernames! Since 2009, I have made my online presence as “coryldork”—to the point where...
View ArticleMonth In Review: January 2017
The first month of 2017 is done already? I’ll be honest: this month was a blur. I don’t have much to write on January… It’s been a strange, hazy thirty-one days. I’ll make my Months In Review quick...
View Article#WIPjoy in February
WIPjoy is a series of questions and prompts are from Bethany A. Jennings (on Instagram, Twitter, and her website) for writers to answer about their work-in-progress. I was late to the January party,...
View Article#WIPjoy Day 1
Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 1: Introduce your WIP The Pilgrimage is a high fantasy novel featuring a set of twins, a trans man, a woman and her lost sister, and a student hell-bent on success. There’s...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 2: Why does your protagonist pull at your heartstrings? My protagonist, Zephyr, pulls at my heartstrings because, well, he’s a part of myself. He’s anxious about change, and...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 3: How do you get to know your characters? I’ve personally gotten to know them over the past few years through writing them into so many drafts. But in the story, we get to know...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 4: Share a line about your premise! “What if all our deaths and successes aren’t what they seem?” And that’s all I’m saying about it.
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 5: How easy is this WIP to write? Considering I started it in the summer of 2013, have rewritten it three times now, and I’m only (on this draft) getting it to a place where it...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 6: Which character is hardest to write? Imani is definitely the hardest character for me to write. She’s a black woman who lived in a small, isolated community. Her character...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! Day 7: Tell us about YOU and your work! Well, I’m Coryl. I’ve been writing for a long time, but only started taking it seriously in 2010. Almost all of my writing deals with one of...
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Welcome to #WIPjoy! This is week 2, where I discuss relationships in the book. Day 8: Who’s your protagonist’s best friend? My protagonist, Zephyr, has a twin sister named Dwyn. They’ve been close...
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