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A week ago I said that I'd finished cutting stuff out of the first draft of my NaNoWriMo project and was reading to start adding new things in. On reflection I decided I hadn't killed quite enough darlings yet, so I'm halfway through a second pass. It's now down to 109k words, with the goal of the second draft being no more than 85% of the first draft i.e. 113k words.
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Not only did I reach my "replacement for Nitter" milestone, it seems to like it's even a functional replacement for the Miniflux component. I deployed it yesterday, currently ironing our compatibility issues as they pop up (there's a different OS on my web server than on my home machine, and not all of the packages available on one are available on the other at the same version). If there are no big surprises I'll push it to github over this week.
How are you doing @Southkraut?
Slowly, snailfashion, glacially, at a pace I dread to think about (because at this rate, I will not get anything done in my life), I have chewed away at my Actor positioning/scaling/parenting issues in Unreal. I'm getting a progressively better handle at it, but it's still infuriatingly very similar to Unity/Godot but off by just enough to confound me at every turn.
Would it maybe be an idea to take a vacation from this hobby? I'm a pretty regular reader here and I don't think it's psychologically healthy to always be so critical of oneself about the progress one is having in an optional aspect of their life. I struggle with this myself, which is why I play the old wise man now. As Oliver Burkeman says: You don't have to think about it in terms of productivity debt that you have to pay off to be considered a human being. You are one.
I have frequently taken vacations from this hobby, and come back to it. Sometimes it's a few days, sometimes a few months. But I always come back. In any case, I want to do this. I just want to regain the productivity I used to have (granted, in a more accessible environment and with me having much more time for it) so that I can sit down for a session, implement an idea, and see it bear out, at a more predictable pace than right now. This entire aspect of my life is "optional" only in so far as having a family or a job is optional. Yes I could abandon it, but I'd just end up obsessing over it again sooner or later.
Maybe I need to age into some more wisdom before I can accept your advice, but right now I'm philosophically of the opinion that being a human is cheap. In all ways that matter, you are what you do. We're human doings, not human beings.
I'm absolutely in favor of doing things and not just being. It's more about a shift in mentality. I think beating yourself up about not getting things done is long-term harmful. A real break would maybe get you out of the cycle.
Maybe I should've added that one has to try to adopt a new mentality: "Getting Things Done by Being Friendly to Yourself" instead of having the self-criticism angle and then when the regular self-criticism doesn't work, one just dials it up to 11, because that's the whip that always worked. Self-love and all those terms are not terms certain kind of people will accept, but maybe "being friendly to oneself" works for you.
I get shit done after this ongoing transformation and I worked on my most ambitious software architecture so far the last quarter and I only use the whip less than 20% of the time.
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