I want to go back to a healthier lifestyle like I had been doing in 2017 when I lost 130lbs. Unfortunately, moving 8 hours away from my kids and 4-year-old granddaughter (who I raised for her first 3 years) impacted me far more than I expected. I didn't want to move but my wife lost her job and she is the one who got to stay in college and get the fancy degrees while I worked full-time to support us. The roles reversed a few years ago but then the company she worked for closed and we were forced to find a place that was hiring in her field. Over that time I developed PPPD (which is dizziness 24/7/365 with little to no breaks). It forced me into a position of staying at home which is why I started writing to avoid going crazy. Back where we lived I had a mapped area I walked every day that worked out really well and had a limited impact on my dizziness, but up here it's a very different story. I'd like to lose 80lbs more, but between depression and anxiety attacks on top of PTSD, and dizziness it has not been easy to make healthy choices. My bad on that one.
My other goal is to get the book I have been flushing out for nearly 18 months to finally be written in its entirety. I have so many scenes written out but getting them all incorporated into the big picture has been quite an ordeal. Since my book is Science Fiction and Dystopian I am nervous if it will even sell anymore. I love my story though, so I refuse to stop until it's complete and out there.
I also have a list of about 50 other stories that I want to tell if I can just get through this massive one first. I tried writing one of the others alongside my current work, a fable style, but it was just too much to live inside of two completely different worlds at the same time and I felt that my characters were paying the price for it. My stories are in all kinds of genres so I am not sure what to expect from an agent, editor, and publisher standpoint.