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Throttling up
3 years ago
Back in 2018 I got really, really sick at the outset of graduate school, to the point I nearly died. I've covered that before, I think. Maybe not. But anyway, I lost something major.
My ability to hit a flow state. Mathematical, creative, coding, etc. It was just -gone-. It was like losing 3rd and 4th gear, or more like losing the ability to go over 50% throttle. It's back.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9292100/ Three years and a couple of weeks ago I mentioned an unnamed project that I was at 75,000/144,000 words. It was going to be a web series, smutty, and go alongside several other stories I was working on simultaneously. Since then, it's rocketed forward with cataclysmic energy that eclipsed everything else I was working on. It's now pushing 200,000 words and is the first in at least a trilogy. The second book is ready to start drafting, and the first video game is ready for me to go into formal production as soon as I finish revision.
Even sitting here with almost-pneumonia-hey-we're-going-to-have-you-take-these-two-antibiotics-at-once-okay?, my week's been hella productive, and so's my month. I'm in a slow-rolling upgrade on all of my tech. Finally got a decent deal to replace my 10 year old laptop, am turning my entire house into a smart home, and am splitting my first novel in three because the feedback I've gotten is "More, more, more" not "This is unnecessary, cut here, maybe less here"!
It's been a cool year. Slow, but cool!
My ability to hit a flow state. Mathematical, creative, coding, etc. It was just -gone-. It was like losing 3rd and 4th gear, or more like losing the ability to go over 50% throttle. It's back.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9292100/ Three years and a couple of weeks ago I mentioned an unnamed project that I was at 75,000/144,000 words. It was going to be a web series, smutty, and go alongside several other stories I was working on simultaneously. Since then, it's rocketed forward with cataclysmic energy that eclipsed everything else I was working on. It's now pushing 200,000 words and is the first in at least a trilogy. The second book is ready to start drafting, and the first video game is ready for me to go into formal production as soon as I finish revision.
Even sitting here with almost-pneumonia-hey-we're-going-to-have-you-take-these-two-antibiotics-at-once-okay?, my week's been hella productive, and so's my month. I'm in a slow-rolling upgrade on all of my tech. Finally got a decent deal to replace my 10 year old laptop, am turning my entire house into a smart home, and am splitting my first novel in three because the feedback I've gotten is "More, more, more" not "This is unnecessary, cut here, maybe less here"!
It's been a cool year. Slow, but cool!
