Hey all,
So, it's time that I face facts. When I started this blog, it was with the idea to share my thoughts, colelcted wisdom, whatever you want to call it, about superhero RPGs. There is a lot to be said for running the genre and I think I said a lot of good stuff. The problem is that I may have said it too fast and with too much excitement.
When I kicked off the blog it was with the intent of posting two featured post a week. This seemed fine as I had a backlog of material I had posted on my Discord going back a couple of years but the problem arose as I reached the end of that material and I found it harder and harder to come up with new things to write about. Even adding the From The Folder Friday series seem to help as it just added more work and doing character conversions and updates proved a bit more work than I had thought. While I did manage to write more, the ideas came less regularly and didn't seem to understand deadlines. the blog fell behind and pressure grew which started to work against my ADHD to make it something to avoid.
Further complicating it all was a lack of feedback, comments, and interaction over the posts. People were visiting the blog, if the stats could be believed but nobody was engaging with the material - not here or at other places where I posted the releases. this served to further negatively effect my ADHD. I'm not full enough fo myself to write/talk for the sake of hearing myself speak and I genuinely enjoy sharing ideas and methods with people but that stops being enjoyable when people aren't responding, so, again, I slow down.
So, what's the answer?
For me the way forward seems to be to write when I have an idea and try to keep the Friday write-ups going. This may mean a post only every now and again but it will mean that content keeps coming out without the pressure that kills my motivation. Maybe if I can drum up some traffic, feedback, interaction that gives me new ideas or provides momentum things will pick back up. At the end of the day, there is only so much that can be said about running superhero RPGs.
Thanks all,
-Eli
Further complicating it all was a lack of feedback, comments, and interaction over the posts. People were visiting the blog, if the stats could be believed but nobody was engaging with the material - not here or at other places where I posted the releases. this served to further negatively effect my ADHD. I'm not full enough fo myself to write/talk for the sake of hearing myself speak and I genuinely enjoy sharing ideas and methods with people but that stops being enjoyable when people aren't responding, so, again, I slow down.
So, what's the answer?
For me the way forward seems to be to write when I have an idea and try to keep the Friday write-ups going. This may mean a post only every now and again but it will mean that content keeps coming out without the pressure that kills my motivation. Maybe if I can drum up some traffic, feedback, interaction that gives me new ideas or provides momentum things will pick back up. At the end of the day, there is only so much that can be said about running superhero RPGs.
Thanks all,
-Eli
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