Finally, an Update.
I have attempted to write up an update this year…5 or 6 different times now (now 7, as I return to this draft nearly a month after originally attempting it), all of which ended up going nowhere or being actively scrapped as I felt they were a bit more negative and I didn’t want that negativity to overshadow the good parts of the year.
Outside of the general ‘everything’s on fire’ situation going on with the world, this year has actually been pretty good to me. I was able to pay off a few debts, work’s been going well, and I actually have a second part time job doing actual sound design/game audio implementation work which is really exciting! All in all things haven’t been bad for me.
What’s really tripped me up trying to write up an update this year has probably been the fact that I haven’t actually done anything worth talking about. I’ve been mostly just surviving. I haven’t even come close to achieving any of what I wanted this year, and I think it’s been weighing on me much more than I realize.
For the sake of getting everything down on paper, here were my main goals for this year:
- Fix my diet (stop ordering out, reduce junk food intake, etc.)
- Get into a regular exercise routine
- Either get a demo build to a ‘complete enough’ state for my game project idea, or move into production on my practice audio drama snippets
- Find a writing groove and finish one story per month.
- Release a new, free foley sound library
- Release updates to my free ambiance and footsteps libraries
- Settle into a weekly stream where I work on audio/development projects
And here’s what I’ve managed to get done this year:
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Now, it’s not a massive deal that I haven’t achieved these goals yet, but it is still frustrating to have these goals in the back of my mind while in a state where it feels impossible to even chip away a bit at one of them.
So I’ve decided to change up this list. First thing’s first, I’m probably going to be fully removing the sound library work. I think the majority of my sound design work this year will be going towards improving my abilities so I can do well at my part time job.
Speaking of sound libraries though, I should mention that all my sound libraries are now free through the end of August, so feel free to grab them while you can!
As far as streaming goes, I may stream a bit here and there. I’m not going to go for weekly unless I can find a good day to do so each week. I noticed when I was in a groove with my daily exercise and cooking for myself each night, I never really had a good time to stream, and was too tired to stay up too late to do so. Instead I might do a weekly Saturday stream or something when I feel like it. I’ll post updates when I go live as usual.
Now for the big projects.
I’ve had a game development project that I’ve been pretty excited about working on, but haven’t had much desire to dive into it lately. Its original purpose was to help get me excited to work on my audio drama project ideas, which it has done, so for now I’m probably going to set it aside while I work on writing. Which I guess leads me to writing…
My biggest goal this year was to start writing regularly. I was doing some free writing at the end of last year, which gave me a bunch of little story ideas, plus some scripts I never returned to for my audio drama project. I’m going to turn my attention towards those, and try to write a little bit every day.
I’m also going to let myself write up general blog posts with whatever musings I feel like talking about. I’ve had a few ideas that I even started writing already, so I’ll do my best to return to them. They’re mostly audio related. Musings on how loud the internet is, what it’s like to ditch streaming services altogether, stuff like that. Things I’d like to talk about that, hopefully, others are interested enough in to share their view on things.
So, that’s that. Not a very exciting post, I know, but I mostly needed something to upload here so I can see how posts end up being formatted on my site, and now I’ve finally finished a piece of writing this year, so things are already looking up!
I don’t have any deadlines planned for my next upload. Right now my focus is going to be rebuilding the habit of writing every day. Once I feel that I’m in a comfortable spot I’ll begin looking at setting deadlines for the stories I’m working on.
I don’t have any ideas on how to end this so here we are. Have a good one y’all <3
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