Not Goodbye Afterall

Hello!

I mostly wanted to make a new post so that the first thing readers see on my site isn’t a goodbye message, haha. I am, most officially, back. Burnout has been kicked to the curb, and I’m ready to tackle big things.

That said, don’t expect to see much of me until I am ready to drop the big “WTF!” announcement. That might be this year or next year. Lots to do, but it’s going to be a lot of fun and well worth the wait.

Now, if you haven’t seen the update I added to the Arachnomancer 4 project and my briefs, here it is.

It has been 10,000 years!

Or, more specifically, about seven months.

In these last seven months, I’ve recovered from burnout (see the previous announcement here) and am ready to tackle an incredibly ambitious plan for my publishing business and Olindale as a whole.

What is this crazy-cool, ambitious, will-surely-burn-me-out-again plan? That’s a good question. For now, it’s a secret. Just know that I am actively working on Arachnomancer and related . . . things. . . .

As for burnout, I wonder if this is just a me thing, a thing to recognize as normal, a cycle for one thing to end so I can recover by doing something new and neat.

When I do something, I give my all to it. I do this until I’ve drained every drop of ambition. It’s like diving deep beneath the surface of the cool waters of lake something-something, then coming up for air. My burnouts are just me coming up for air, desperate to find a completely different thing to challenge me.

In the months I’ve been gone from writing, I built some really neat software for my client that will surely help his business grow. Then, I burned out, haha. It has taken me two months to even want to look at the code again, but I’m now back at it, excited to build new systems.

I see the pattern. A breath of fresh air isn’t taking a day off or a weekend, it’s taking a month or two to fully invest myself into some new pursuit, like mastering sourdough bread. I might have baked well over three hundred loaves since last November. . . .

It’s time to fully immerse myself in the world of Olindale again.

I’m beyond excited. I hope you are, too. :)