I think I’m getting quite close to writing another story. This is good news, since it’s fast approaching November and I need to think of something I wouldn’t mind dedicating a month to.
I go through these phases from time to time. I get right into something and oversaturate myself with it, to the point of excess, and then I move on with complete disconnect. There’s no withdrawal or pain. Sure there’s a bit of longing, maybe, of no longer having a routine or a habit.
I’m big into my videogames. I keep up with the news and the releases, and read reviews on games I might want to buy, or might never buy but I like reading about them. Recently I made a big push and played one game to completion, but I did it in a really obsessive way. I sat indoors on a sunny day and played five straight hours of this game. At the end I had a bit of a headache and had dreams of peeking round corners to avoid giant robots. Then the next day I did the same again, except I could only play for three hours because I had to go to work. I finished that game and went to move onto another one, but for the life of me I can’t seem to get excited for it. I look at my library and can’t seem to muster the energy to play anything else.
So, yeah. I’m a little burnt out on videogames. This is good though.
I’m not quite in the mood to write yet. I get by, managing something once per week over at Battle Writing, but I can’t put myself back into it yet. I have ideas, but not many of them. They’re all shallow and half-formed, bouncing round my head like idle daydreams that have no grounding or substance. No writing phase yet. Still, this is a good time for me. It means I can read books, watch films and listen to a ton of music. I get to saturate myself with other media, and out of all of that I can pick and choose and steal who is going to be next in my stories. Yeah, that’s my secret. I’m a thieving hack.
Man, I’m excited to write again. I have a plan for what it might be about, but we’ll see.
Preemptive Retaliation 
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