Learning To Run On Fumes

So, this will be a short post. I wanna get this out of my head before I lose the motivation to write this post for you. I find it kinda funny that this is what I have the feeling to write at this moment when there are so many other topics I want to discuss or draft posts sitting there waiting for me to finish, but here we are.

This year I dedicated myself to writing more and revitalizing this blog. I set out a goal for myself to write three blog posts a month. So far, I have not achieved that goal. But I have been writing. I have been behind my keyboard a lot more than in previous years. I was able to get at least one to two new posts out and onto this blog each month. I think that is major progress from zero.

I’m learning to give myself a lot more credit and grace when it comes to my creative endeavors because I am learning how to run on fumes again. I did a lot last year and this year feels like it has gone by so quickly but has been dragging out ever slowly. The first three months collectively have been a blur for me. From personal trips, triumphs, and tragedies. I have seen my mental health go on a rollercoaster that I honestly was not expecting to hop on.

I’m also currently a full-time student and that is where I have been getting most of my writing done. I have been building more and more confidence in the worlds I get to create and the stories that I want to tell. I have a lot in my head that is finally seeing the light of day.

I took time today so I could clear up my personal space. I think that this ritual around this time of the year always helps me clear my head. Spring cleaning has always felt foreign to me as a kid, but now that I am an adult the transition from winter into a fresh new spring equinox feels better when you clear the slate of all the clutter that you have been hoarding and accumulating in the frozen months of the cycle that we call life.

I have always seen running on fumes as a bad thing. Telling me that burnout has set in and I am a useless shell of the creative that I truly am. But I think I have come to see it as a testament to the discipline that I have developed during the dark times of my spiral. Showing myself that no matter how low I feel, I can and still persist in my creative pursuits.

To give you a glimpse as to what I am currently sitting on in my drafts and to tease a few articles and topics that will be posted to the blog. I have a few comic reviews that I am working on writing. Some Doctor Who content and a tribute piece to Akira Toriyama. I want to talk about YouTube retirement and a full forty-year retrospective piece on the TMNT franchise from a lifelong fan. There are a lot of things in the barrel and I know it will reach this blog. I am focusing more on evergreen content. I look over what gets the most traffic on the Block, and I see it is the content that you can come back to over and over again. So I think that is where I will put my focus.

If you’ve taken the time to get this far, thank you for sticking it out with me. I am still gonna push for three posts a month, but where I am now is better than I was before this year. I still don’t have the most solid plan for this blog just yet. But it is a place where I can do things like this, and that can be good enough for the moment. If you like what you read here and want to support me more, consider joining my Patreon or drop by my YouTube channel. I’ll catch you in my next post.