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A Note About Cycles

by MCM on September 11, 2009

This is an excuse post, wherein I will distract you from a lack of content.

I don’t know if other writers have this problem, but I live in a world of cycles.  I wear many hats, so I have many cycles, and while I have tried to map them all out, they’re too unpredictable, so I had to give up and put myself at their mercy.

I have a dramatic writing cycle, a comedy cycle, a programming cycle, a plotting cycle, a graphic design cycle, a drawing cycle, a video editing cycle, and sometimes a “shut up and leave me alone” cycle.  Though not often.

Today, I am knee-deep in a programming cycle, coming off a comedy one, and if I’m lucky, heading towards a drawing one.  I really need to draw some stuff soon.  Last time I thought I was heading in that direction, I had a burst of video editing that got me nowhere.  I must finish Xander and the Wind before the month is out, but my brain just isn’t there.  It’s like writer’s block, except it has nothing to do with writing, and I end up producing a lot of OTHER stuff, so it just looks like I’m being rude.  I’m not, honest.  I’m battling with rampant distractibility.

Which is to say: I may not be producing as much writing content over the next few days/weeks as I had been.  It’s not you, it’s me.  Though you can blame yourself too if it would make you feel better.

(note: Fission Chips will be produced on schedule, because I have a song I listen to that jumpstarts that part of my brain.  I wish I had that for drawing…)

MCM is the creator of the animated series RollBots. He also writes books, such as The Vector, The Pig and the Box, and Typhoon. When not doing such things, he is coding sites like this one. He is also insane.
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