@melissafortino.bsky.social
I’m a professional organizer & personal assistant/house manager by day & aspiring writer by early morning hours & night. I am working on my memoir about my schizoaffective disorder that focuses on 4 months in 2019 when I had full psychotic breaks.
I got my author headshots back! Thank you Renee Hollister for doing them for me! While it feels a bit silly to post them I figure after the year I have had I’m happy to still be here & in this body of mine, imperfections & all. Next step: sending out query letters to literary agents.
21.05.2025 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today marks 6 years since I started taking Abilify, the antipsychotic that changed my life for the better. For those of you that don’t know I have schizoaffective disorder. Don’t give up on finding the right med! It wasn’t easy but was so worth it. It stopped my delusions & voices I was hearing.
30.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for taking the time to read it!
30.03.2025 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gotta find a publisher this year to make that happen!
17.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have officially finished the first draft of my memoir! I am at 50,933 words total. My goal is 60,000 so I may be adding more flashback chapters & beefing up existing chapters to get there. I wrote the epilogue today getting a total of 1,484 words in. Next is sharing it with my beta readers.
16.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
If RFK Jr. takes away my antipsychotic my life will be ruined. Abilify literally saved my life. I no longer have hallucinations, delusions or think that I need to end my life. I tried fixing my schizoaffective disorder through proper nutrition, vitamins & exercise & it didn’t fucking work.
16.02.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worked on my memoir for the 2nd time this week. I wrote my third flashback chapter today getting 1,676 words in. I just have the Epilogue left to write & the first draft will be done. I’ve got 18 chapters plus the prologue. I may add in some more flashback chapters during the editing process.
15.02.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I worked on my memoir for the 3rd day in a row. Today I wrote the prologue getting 1,687 words out in an hour. It’s an important flashback to 2012 when I made some wild accusations of my family that lead to me believing wholeheartedly in my delusions. Prologues are unusual in a memoir.
05.02.2025 01:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much for saying this! I hope to help change the stigma & get at least one person on the other side of their struggle with the proper meds & treatment.
04.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worked on my memoir about my schizoaffective disorder again today, I wrote chapter 16 Staying Afloat. It’s the last chapter of my book but I still need to go back & add in the flashback chapters to better explain the origins of some of my delusions & one of the voices I was hearing.
04.02.2025 00:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Worked on my memoir about my schizoaffective disorder for the first time today since my cancer diagnosis. I got 1,778 words in, another chapter down titled Forest View. It feels really good to be working on it again. Probably 5 chapters left to write & then draft 1 will be done.
02.02.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi!! Still figuring this app out.
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