How My Stories Get Made (And Why They Repeat)

 

Blog Note: How My Stories Get Written

I posted recently about how my stories don’t run in any kind of order — they land here as I find them, as I remember them, as I finally feel ready to write them. That’s still true. But I also want to explain how they get written, because the process matters just as much as the pieces themselves.

Most of the current stories — the rants, the truths, the sharp little blasts — start as voice notes when I’m driving. That’s when my brain is loudest. Distracted, overloaded, thinking out loud, talking to myself the way I always have. I hit record, spill the thought, and send it to myself as an email.

Then I print it. Then I go through it the best I can. Then Copilot helps me clean the spelling, the grammar, the loops, the repeats — because being neurodiverse means there are always repeats. Always echoes. Always the same sentence said three different ways because my brain is trying to land the point.

And that’s the thing I need to say clearly:

You will see repeats here.

Sometimes the same story two or three times. Sometimes the same poem in a different shape. Sometimes the same truth told from a new angle.

Not because I’ve forgotten I posted it. Not because I’m being lazy. But because I’m proud of this work.

I’ve knocked it out of the park with some of these pieces. I know it. I feel it. And if I only post something once, it disappears into the scroll. I want these stories to live, to be found, to be read — especially the ones that will one day sit inside a book with my name on the spine.

So yes, there will be repeats. There will be echoes. There will be versions.

If you’re an avid reader, I apologise — but only a little. Because this is how my writing works. This is how my ND brain processes truth, trauma, memory, fiction, rant, fact, and everything in between.

And like I said in How My Stories Live Here: this blog is a home for all of it.