I miss my early morning creative bursts. It’s much harder to chip away at things when you don’t sleep well enough to be up and alert at those hours. Anyway, today was more of a contemplation day; I’m–

[INTERMISSION: It’s Raining]

I’m a little wet now but rainy weather gives me tons of energy and some much needed focus. So today was more of a contemplation day. I haven’t been making any progress on my stories and I’ve been trying to work around that by brushing up on my digital art skills (I mentioned this before but making character and setting art does help me with writing). Getting back into doing my own art comes with its own hurdles though, and that’s slowing me down even more. So I spent a good chunk of the day trying to figure out how to get things done more quickly.

I know I’ll finish everything I’m working on eventually, but that’s not good enough. I’ve got at least one more website to build that I’m still brainstorming, two separate programming languages I’m trying to learn, I’ve got video editing practice to sort out (I’d like to make at least some income from this in the future), the digital art, all the writing projects, and then the hobbies like the monthly book reads, WoWs clan battles, and whatever my main games happen to be (usually just Space Engineers).

I’m trying various approaches, or rather have been for a while now. That’s what the monthly goals thing I was doing going into 2022 was about, but what’s really getting in my way is not having a real sleep schedule. If I don’t get a handle on that, all the little work hacks in the world aren’t going to help.

I can’t stand not writing anything at all at least once a week, so sometime this week I’m going to cram something into the works. I don’t care what it is. It could be one of the current projects or something completely new or irrelevant. It doesn’t matter but it has to happen or I’m going to lose it.

That’s it for now.