Burn Out

Can you tell I'm feeling it yet?

There have been longer breaks between games lately. I've also been writing a lot less when I do. Some of it is because not much is happening in these niche games, but a lot is because I'm kinda just sick of this. It's become a symbol of relief when I don't have to update at night, and I enjoy the relaxing nature of doom scrolling. It's been over three years and nearly 900 posts, so this has lasted longer than I thought. I'm actually quite impressed with myself. But I don't hate this.

Yet.

I still like writing about my adventures and plan to continue, but things need to change. I'm not leaving my bread and butter, but I have to switch up how and what I write more often. It's boring to read, boring to write, and it's clear my writing style isn't evolving much. I'm not happy about that either... Rather than force it, making burnout worse, I'm going to lower my output and add in some new things.

I'm changing up what I write! I love music. But who doesn't, so that's a dumb exclamation. But I listened to 104 albums last year, and I never wrote about any of them until the closing days of 2023. That's a shame because so many of them were amazing, and I keep coming back to my bangers playlist. So, in between video game write up, I'm gonna talk about new albums. Since I can't grow as a writer, maybe expanding my horizons will do something. So expect growing pains here, which I think are better than stagnant sufferings. I don't know exactly how I'll talk about them, but I'll figure something out. Should I go track by track or discuss the album as a whole? Should I write up a rubric like I did for my games? There's no way in HFIL I'm writing about all of them, though. There was so much mud last year that it would amplify my burnout.

I'm already up to six albums this year, but I don't know if any are worth talking about. I don't even know what is or isn't worth talking about? I'll find plenty of "breaks" this year, so I can always loop back to this Saxon album. Get ready to see me type "bangers" a million times! 

Also, I kinda want to write (and finish) a book. 

But I've reviewed exactly ninety nine games since July 2020. It'd be weird to not get that 100th out first, right? And it's gonna be something else, let me tell ya.