For When I Miss A Week Or Two

          On occasion, I don’t upload an article for the week. The explanation varies between being sick or losing the original document. But in reality, sometimes you just have no idea what to write. Readers may have noticed some weeks have no articles posted. Most often, it’s because I didn’t write anything. 

          This isn’t a case of me being lazy. It’s merely a condition in which I find a topic to discuss that I don’t think about often enough nor research enough to write something worth reading (also known as “procrastination”). It happens to the best of us, really. Every so often you need a break. Missing a scheduled task harms your consistency, but recovers your thoughts.

Think of an artist who draws every single day for a year. They keep up a daily routine in which they draw a sketch that takes between thirty minutes to an hour to do, then post it online or share it through other means. Then one day, there’s nothing. No sketch of the day today. What gives? Maybe something came up that took precedence over the daily sketch. A week later, still no drawings. Did they give up? Are they done drawing? On the eighth day, you see a post. The author explains their situation and why they haven’t been drawing lately. At least they were able to communicate to their audience. But in some cases, there’s no communication. Only silence.

          I’m not stopping my writing or anything; I don’t have an article up because I had too many other tasks to do and couldn’t get around to it. Either that or despite the list of topics to discuss I couldn’t come up with anything to say about them. That’s one of the reasons I’m trying a monthly analysis where I look at a game, analyze it, then talk about it. What makes the game work, where it falls short, and why readers should play it or at least learn from it. It gives me time to really look at the game in my free time and see if there’s anything worth looking at. If there is, expect a long read at the end of the month. If there isn’t, that article may be brief.

          I do apologize if you look forward to these on a weekly basis and I unexpectedly have nothing. I can’t exactly prepare for weeks where I have no ideas. They show up out of nowhere! Still, I try to be consistent like the artist who can draw a picture a day for a year. Reality is, some days you can’t make yourself work. It’s fine to take a break and relax. During that time, more ideas come flowing in and now we’ve got something to work with.

Thank you all for reading my stuff thus far. I doubt I’ll be quitting anytime soon. Still, if anything happens you’ll be the first to know.