On Videogames and motivation · 3:24am May 6th, 2019
I'm reaching a tipping point with these videogames. I quite enjoy them, yes, and there is a massive disparity between the multitudes of games to play and the time available to play them. That's nothing new though; always has been, always will be.
What has been newly growing is my dissatisfaction with my creative output. I'm 1500 words into the next chapter of Blooming Backwards, ready to work on the next chapter of Scootaloo and the Cabinet of Seers, and have several story ideas I am really excited for bouncing around in my skull. I have a lot of fun writing, and can easily lose several hours in crafting a chapter...
But getting started is hard. Like, super super hard. I have found that it's much easier to sit down and shut my brain off and play a game, but I am becoming gradually more aware of the feeling of "obligation" to play games that I spent money on. Half the time I can't choose a game to play and just stare at the screen, paralyzed with indecision.
Sometimes I think that I need someone to hold me accountable, to hold a metaphorical gun to my metaphorical head and compel me to open my dusty laptop and write. Has anyone gone through something similar? How did you manage? How did you win?
Unrelated, I wanted to share this picture of our family cat. It's a collage of great, wondrous things that are warm and cute and comforting in my life. I hope you enjoy!
I'm in the same boat." Saturday I told myself two and a half hours were set aside for writing. What transpired was a series of unfortunate and ridiculous situations that prevented me from doing much at the time I planned to write. What happened was I ended up writing very late at night instead... kinda. I really just copy pasted the final chapters of Beyond the Veil out of gdocs, after finishing up the remaining edits. So not really writing. It took forever, because I had to re-read the story to figure out what I was thinking at the time. I did, though, find more story concepts/outlines and a partial first chapter to another story. I have crap all over the place it seems.
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It's amazing how much can pop up and take precedence when it comes to writing stuff, isn't it?
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It is. I'm shooting for actual writing after work Monday.
First world problems sure do suck. I hope you can get your motivation to write and keep it in check while keeping up with the games you love.
Right now, I'm not winning at all. I'm getting some writing done, but it's tough to focus on it when I know I only have several hours before work on most days and a few hours after before bed.
I can relate very well.
In fact, I've been not writing and playing videogames for two years now.
Even quitting videogames doesn't work, I just find something else to do. Like youtube or Netflix or books.
Sooo... yeah. Wanna talk about it? I feel like I want to talk about it.