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Hello!
Lately, I've been struggling a lot with remaining committed to projects I set out to do on my own, most especially writing projects. At first, I thought it was because I was burnt out from school and then having a lot going on in my life post-graduation. Now that I'm almost two years post-graduation, I'm still strugglin' with stuff, so I'm more reluctant to believe it's just burn out from school. I've tried to keep a few blogs since graduation, but all of them have ended up flopping because I've lost interest in them within a couple months of starting. After talking with a friend on Discord recently, I decided to start this blog to have a place to dump ideas, write about things that aren't worthy of a whole entire thread but I still want to write about, and just see where things go. I decided after graduation that writing wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life as a career; I think I burnt out on that in college and realized that it was not for me. I still like writing though, and I would love to be able to keep my own blog (bonus points if I can make money off of it!) in a professional manner, not just something on a forum like this. Basically, I think I realized that freelancing was the way to go for me. In the past, the blogs I've started were on WordPress and there was the pressure of keeping up with a schedule I set myself, and I'd feel bad because I'd lose interest and they'd die out. Here, if I write about a topic and I burn out on it, the guilt isn't there as much because there's not as much pressure.
Can't promise how much I'll keep up with this, but I'll probably make posts every once in a while as I've got things on my mind. No specific topic I'll write about here, though if there's anything anyone wants to see, I'm willing to write about it. If nothing else, it'll be a place where I dump ideas and share thoughts on stuff, and who knows, maybe I'll find something worth writing about long term and turn it into a real blog because that'll be fun.
EDIT: This'll be separate from any LPs I do, like the HeartGold playthrough I finished recently; I'll keep those in their own threads, just for the sake of organization.
Lately, I've been struggling a lot with remaining committed to projects I set out to do on my own, most especially writing projects. At first, I thought it was because I was burnt out from school and then having a lot going on in my life post-graduation. Now that I'm almost two years post-graduation, I'm still strugglin' with stuff, so I'm more reluctant to believe it's just burn out from school. I've tried to keep a few blogs since graduation, but all of them have ended up flopping because I've lost interest in them within a couple months of starting. After talking with a friend on Discord recently, I decided to start this blog to have a place to dump ideas, write about things that aren't worthy of a whole entire thread but I still want to write about, and just see where things go. I decided after graduation that writing wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life as a career; I think I burnt out on that in college and realized that it was not for me. I still like writing though, and I would love to be able to keep my own blog (bonus points if I can make money off of it!) in a professional manner, not just something on a forum like this. Basically, I think I realized that freelancing was the way to go for me. In the past, the blogs I've started were on WordPress and there was the pressure of keeping up with a schedule I set myself, and I'd feel bad because I'd lose interest and they'd die out. Here, if I write about a topic and I burn out on it, the guilt isn't there as much because there's not as much pressure.
Can't promise how much I'll keep up with this, but I'll probably make posts every once in a while as I've got things on my mind. No specific topic I'll write about here, though if there's anything anyone wants to see, I'm willing to write about it. If nothing else, it'll be a place where I dump ideas and share thoughts on stuff, and who knows, maybe I'll find something worth writing about long term and turn it into a real blog because that'll be fun.
EDIT: This'll be separate from any LPs I do, like the HeartGold playthrough I finished recently; I'll keep those in their own threads, just for the sake of organization.