Yet Another Update · 3:35pm May 18th, 2014
My job is basically draining all the life out of me, save for crack fics and random stories on Spacebattles. I know that's all I have to say lately, but it is true. I think I need to cross a threshold of some sort before I can actually resume serious writing. Like there's a psychological block on my ability to be creative thanks to the stress of this job.
Part of it is that I do have ambitions to make writing part of my career. I know the means to do so, I just have to focus enough to actually get it done. But when I'm overwhelmed with stress, I lack focus. The stress from this job isn't the kind that lets me write. Like, there's a kind of stress that allows me to write furiously but this isn't it. I know, I know, more excuses, but I find myself at a point in my life where I'm not sure who I am anymore when everything that is me seems to be in conflict with what I have to do to survive.
Probably not unusual though. Anyway, like everything else in my life that is not job related? This is on indefinite hiatus. Keeping circulating the tapes, guys.
I understand and find your point of view and conundrum to be entirely understandable. You're burnt out, and the stress from your work is just too tasking on your mental facilities, and when it's combined with a number of various other life factors, it culminates into a problem you cannot surmount.
I say, if writing is adding unneeded stress, that is preventing you from advancing in your life, keep on doing what you're doing. Take a break, lose the stress, and try and move into a position where you won't feel as stressed from your job, as you were before. I don't know your personal position, but it is possible, you are never locked into a certain world, one that you cannot change, the only three factors that truly exist about this are where you want to go, when you want to get there, and what are you willing to do to get there.
Do what you need, and when you're ready, feel free to start writing again, when it's not causing you stress. Honestly, you have no commitment to us, not really. The only commitment you have for finishing the story is the one you have to yourself.
Stop channeling my own frustrations, issues, and blocks, and get your own!
I dunno, man. I'd say let's go out, get some drinks, and hit on women together, but we're in different states.
Take care, man. Us Andrews gotta stick together.
I hope you get to relax a little, do something different or hang out with friends.
If it makes you feel better i think Saiyan Birds and Bees is pretty funny.