Jay VanLandingham

Dystopian Fiction-Literary Fiction-Memoir

Author: JayVan80

  • Sentient Origins: Part One

    Ten years ago, an idea came to me. Ideas are a funny thing. I don’t believe they are something we create. Ideas come from a place of nothing. From nowhere, and most often when we are doing something else. Such as driving, which was what I was doing when the idea for Sentient came into…

  • Canada: Friendship with Nature, Connection with Friends

    Canada: Friendship with Nature, Connection with Friends

    Days before the 4th of July, my friends and I fled to Canada for a respite. I will start this blog and finish it by saying how blessed I am for the people in my life. There were six of us on the trip, all of varying gender identities and backgrounds. We crossed the border…

  • A Writer with ADHD

    Back at the end of March, I experienced my first bout of burnout as a result of ADHD hyper-focus. I only recently became aware of my ADHD. For three weeks I struggled to maintain my energy as I met with clients, worked on my book, and tried to simply function. Never in my life had…