Ha, ha... No, I'm still here, cheers again for the delegation, yeah, people have great intentions to do stuff, but life and other shit get in the way and they fall back into old habits pretty quickly, I'm guilty of that myself. But I think I've built up a small bit of credit here now that I can use.
I went quiet because I decided to take up a short story challenge in here, thinking " yeah, I'll knock that out in an evening's writing" and of course, a week later I'm sweating like I'm back in college the night before my final thesis is due! 😂
I'll find that balance with posting, reading, engaging etc, I can see how you need to build up your tribe slowly over time, but I genuinely really like this place, I may be here for a while yet. 🙂
Back in my daily grind days I was hypnotized to be creative and work my ass off. I'd have writing and new art ready, daily! Hardly slept because I had to live as well. 8 hours on art, 3 on writing, then sit and talk with folks for as long as the comments came in. I think one time I was on this thing 36 hours straight. All that just because I wanted to get somewhere. I don't recommend folks get that crazy though. But I'm the type where if I focus on something and want to do well, I'm on a mission until it gets done.
These days I'm more about balance. I'll poke away at my posts for quite a few days. No rush jobs. The two I did before this one I'm really happy with.
In a creative lull though when it comes to art and it's bringing me down a bit but luckily I can still write.
But yeah, slow and steady is the way to be. Definitely need to find your people. I'm spread thin when it comes to supporting folks. Like to spread it around as well. Sucks that I can't do more but I'm only one guy.
I've been that crazy with the music side of things, living and breathing it, taking a ton of courses and workshops, really trying to hone the craft, did it for months and months on end, year to year, but it just got too much. My health suffered and my creative well went dry.
Same as yourself, nowadays I'm trying to find that balance.
I think from a newbie's perspective, what you've built here is amazing - I can tell you enjoy your writing, plus people reading and commenting really relate to it. Your own artwork really gives it your personal touch, and as you said, you're not putting that pressure on yourself to post daily, and taking that time shows in the quality of your posts IMO
Sometimes you're better off not trying to push something, like with the art, just enjoy the writing for a while, it's all on the creative spectrum in the end. Hopefully pretty soon you'll find yourself wanting to dip back into the art then, as that urge never goes away, but it can be subdued for a while.
And man, you're doing so much, I genuinely might not have seen the value in this place without you delegating that credit to me at the start - basically some random person I'd never met gave me a leg up, that's very rare in today's society, so just keep doing you man, and know it's absolutely appreciated!
I appreciate your words, man.
Even though it can be rare, that 99% good is always there, somewhere. Plenty of naysayers in this world, but that's their job. Someone needs to fill that position. The rest of the people that talk the talk and walk the walk; they can be heard going places.
Absolutely man, absolutely!