Restarting The Blog!

Hi all, the last blog post I made was about 7 months ago, and I am deleting it in order to make this one. That post was about why my content had lapsed, but I’d rather get into why this tends to happen in a cycle. For me, content has always been a means to an end. I want to share stories and experiences through my artwork. In the modern era, that’s more or less impossible without a presence on Youtube, Twitch, Tiktok and the like. When I have enough money, I can afford to take more time to produce content, but that’s not the only thing stopping me. I have largely untreated ADHD and I am very suceptible to burnout as a result. I tend to sit down and grind out a couple of videos and then I’m toast because I would rather be focusing on the project itself.

While I’ve been gone, I have been doing that. I have 3 main projects that I am holding myself to. Originally, I had been naming Everbound as my primary project, but that is a slow burn. I am constantly working on it, in fact I have been sculpting the map for the last month or more and I am pleased with the progress. In reality, though, it is a big bite to chew so I want to take my time with it. In first place now, however, is my comic book Megalomania. I am 4 fully-completed pages into the first issue and thrilled with it so far. It is an excellent story about self-reflection and moral licensing that I have been writing since college and I am so excited to get it out there. The third project is largely on the backburner, more just an idea I have floating around for an automation/resource management game. I love that genre and I have always wanted to make one with all of my favorite features and mechanics plus a couple new ones of my own invention.

So anyway, what does this mean for content? Streams. I’ve all but given up on editing anything unless you count the in-camera editing for tiktok and youtube shorts. My youtube channel is going to be for updates on what I’m working on in the form of those short videos and work with me streams. Twitch is going to remain the gaming channel as it has been recently, but I am not really going to be committed to a schedule for any of that. I will try to be consistent, but likely you will just find out that I’m on at some random hour playing games and hanging or working on artwork for Megalomania or Everbound. All of those notifications can be found on the discord as always.

Finally, the blog. I can type something out on the train while I head to work (that’s what I’m doing now) so I would expect to see more of these, although I will probably worry less about a designed thumbnail and shit like that. I have another post on the way talking about Megalomania so keep eyes out for that!

I am happy to be honest with myself about what work is most important to me. I started streaming when I was in a really bad mental health situation, and making content has been a great way to get me caring about creating again. Now that I do, though, I need my channels to just be a way of promoting the projects that are foremost in my mind, rather than choosing my projects based on what might make better content.

Thanks for reading! I’ll see you in the next one.