Summer Holidays and the hobby cycle
a year ago
Currently i've been writing some 5K words per week with the two chapters posted weekly. However, in the journal post i made on 2024-05-17, i said i'd promise 2.5K. That's an important distinction, mind you. All the La Tramuntana parts i've been providing were in excess of this promise.
There was something powering my writing, too, a kind of baseline motivation. That's gone now. Writing stories has become a drag and a point of serious effort. To sit down and write is now an incredibly inneficent waste of time given that i barely pump out a sentence in most sessions. My writing quality has fallen, it appears, because the
I have something called a "hobby cycle" and writing was due to leave for months now. The way the hobby cycle works is quite simple; a hobby captivates me for a week or so, i end up learning a lot, and it falls back into the ether. You've seen this happen with drawing; i draw something shitty and then upload it, wait like a month or so, and then draw again, this time less shitty. My writing motivation bank has crashed and time spent writing is time spent not doing things that'd be massively more easier, teaching myself things, and finding new perspective.
Thus, i will be going back to the promise; 2.5k words per week, no promise of more. I'll be doing other things and improving myself there, instead.
There was something powering my writing, too, a kind of baseline motivation. That's gone now. Writing stories has become a drag and a point of serious effort. To sit down and write is now an incredibly inneficent waste of time given that i barely pump out a sentence in most sessions. My writing quality has fallen, it appears, because the
I have something called a "hobby cycle" and writing was due to leave for months now. The way the hobby cycle works is quite simple; a hobby captivates me for a week or so, i end up learning a lot, and it falls back into the ether. You've seen this happen with drawing; i draw something shitty and then upload it, wait like a month or so, and then draw again, this time less shitty. My writing motivation bank has crashed and time spent writing is time spent not doing things that'd be massively more easier, teaching myself things, and finding new perspective.
Thus, i will be going back to the promise; 2.5k words per week, no promise of more. I'll be doing other things and improving myself there, instead.