Time feels short and distractions seem many. Right now I don’t want to write much other than Catgirl System, and other projects (including my blog posts) threaten to screech to a halt. So…why not smash them together into an unholy conglomerate? Join me for a LitRPG chat around the fire.
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Take a Break: Let Your Body Catch Up with Your Mind
If there’s “no good reason” why you should feel burned out, yet you feel burned out, consider a rest. After that, your feelings might go, “Wait, it doesn’t seem hard anymore. …Huh.”
It sounds fake when I put it that way, but it’s been true for me.
Continue reading “Take a Break: Let Your Body Catch Up with Your Mind”The Artist Who’s Never Been Driven At All?
Some artists have a “creative mania.” They work day in and day out, like motors that feed on air. To outsiders, their path to artistry is simple—in the same sense as the simplest way to break into a bank is to pull out the battering ram. Just work tirelessly. Hammer it out. And it may even seem to happen spontaneously, involuntarily.
For me, though, it would take not only passion to reach this state (and…drugs?), but a lot of stifling work.
Continue reading “The Artist Who’s Never Been Driven At All?”Schedule Slip and Not-So-Daily Tasks
Apparently when I give myself too many “every day” “every month” “every two weeks”-type tasks, I start to get overwhelmed. And rather than that overwhelmed-ness stoking a fire in me, it can kind of lead to…apathy.
It feels like the task itself is easy, but the run-up to actually beginning the task is difficult. No, the run-up isn’t even difficult for me right now. It’s the consistency part.
Continue reading “Schedule Slip and Not-So-Daily Tasks”Life Keeps Moving
I haven’t been making much time to write lately. Some of it is familial obligations; some of it is me deliberately pushing it aside.
Continue reading “Life Keeps Moving”Your Audience Wants to Like You
You are an artist. You are afraid of heckling on the internet. But if you’re gonna overcome the block and put anything out there, you either have to throw all caution to the wind or hold strong in the conviction that your audience wants to like you.
Continue reading “Your Audience Wants to Like You”Don’t Keep Going for the Easy Win
Lately I’ve fallen into the trap of sacrificing harder creative work for tedious-but-predictable busywork. How to crawl out of the trap?
Continue reading “Don’t Keep Going for the Easy Win”The Downward Spiral of Self-Deprecation
So I’m going through life, and something innocuous hits me wrong. I don’t feel like being specific, so…let’s pretend it’s an umbrella. Sure. Maybe umbrellas have never bothered me a single moment in my life, until now, this day, when my subconscious mind makes a connection between umbrellas and my deepest fears. A truly unhelpful one.
I spot an umbrella on the ground and for some reason, just seeing it sends a pang through my nerves. A Downward Spiral of Self-Deprecation begins:
Continue reading “The Downward Spiral of Self-Deprecation”Do I Even Have Time for All My Hobbies?
What happened to all that random fun crap I used to do?!
I guess I just got older and busier. Boo-hoo, that’s what happens to pretty much everyone. And yet I’m gonna talk more about it, and how I subconsciously vetted my hobbies to make the most of them.
Continue reading “Do I Even Have Time for All My Hobbies?”The RoyalRoad Blue Box Metagame
(this is 75% shitpost)
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