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Kaku's Rambles 176 - On Hiatuses and Hullabaloo

So, I think sometime in Decemeber I posted a status message mentioning that I was thinking of going on a hiatus because I've been having a hell of a time sitting down to write these and my backlog was drying up. In fact, I am basically writing this a few days, if not a week, after I announced that and I'm still not 100% sure if I'll be actually going through with a true Hiatus or not. However, some great mind once told me that the best way to get your ass out of a creative slump is to write anyway and not give a fuck about the result. Of course they said it way more intelligent and less coarse than I did there, but really, if I started talking like that, it wouldn't be a Kaku's RAmble (WIP) and you'd think I hired a ghost writer. I know I would.

So, I was suddenly struck with a thought of doing this about what's going on with me personally that's making me the ball of stress and unlovable trash that makes me not want to write as much lately. I'm kind of sorry if you don't like my rambles to be so personal, though, so this is your chance to abort and move on with your life. Not that they don't get personal sometimes, but hey, it's whatever. I might swing back into something a bit less personal and talk about Hiatuses and why creators, I feel, sometimes disappear into them. Regardless, let's begin. The personal bit, I have decided, will be between little arrow-y things. You know the ones.

I don't feel like going into the details here, of course, as to why I am this way, but just a quick statement of facts. Pushing yourself to be the best and to your absolute limit is a fine goal, but you should ABSOLUTELY NEVER go without some form of mental health check-up every so often. Having a goddamn nervous breakdown is not something that should be romanticized, and feeling on the edge of it is a sign that you are not in a good place. Especially if it's stress from a shitty boss on your job, or from taking on too much schoolwork at once. Being "married" to your job is not healthy and it WILL lead you to breaking.>

Alright, now that is off the table, y'all can come back if you don't want personal advice and shit. If you sat through those two paragraphs, though, thanks. Either way, Hiatuses seem to be a bit of an ugly word to non-creative folks, and yet a very commonly used term by creators to show that they might not be making any more of their current content. Whether that be as simple as writing a stupid article about random pop culture things and how stupid they can be, to as complex and hard as writing a weekly web comic about amazing manly men and the interesting adventures they may or may not get into, sometimes we just can't do it anymore and burn out for a while. Sometimes permanently.

However, we also know that we have fans, or at least seem to have people that come back week to week to see what we're serving up. So instead of saying "Yeah this isn't working out, peace." We tend to feel like we owe it to others to say "Look, this may come back, stay tuned." instead of "Fuck off and I don't care if you die in a fire." when we feel obligued to continue something that no longer brings us joy or even enjoyment. Maybe that's just the problem with being a creative mind, but it could also be the problem with having a following.

That's not to say that creators ever hold ill will to their fans wanting them to do something. Heavens no. Our fans are what make doing this stuff worthwhile most of the time. Hell, I know quite a few folks who kept going past having fun with the stuff and into hating everything because they kept being forced to make something that sucked, to them, and was only made to placate the fans. I often wonder if this might be the case for certain TV shows, Movies, and other franchises, but that seems a bit beyond what I'm comfortable speaking upon.

Regardless, I feel like although I did announce a hiatus, and I am still struggling to get back onto the horse, we have at least another week of entries into this series, and maybe we'll get more entries as my brain starts feeling like writing more and more.

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Kaku's Rambles 176 - On Hiatuses and Hullabaloo

So, I think sometime in Decemeber I posted a status message mentioning that I was thinking of going on a hiatus because I've been having a hell of a time sitting down to write these and my backlog was drying up. In fact, I am basically writing this a few days, if not a week, after I announced that and I'm still not 100% sure if I'll be actually going through with a true Hiatus or not. However, some great mind once told me that the best way to get your ass out of a creative slump is to write anyway and not give a fuck about the result. Of course they said it way more intelligent and less coarse than I did there, but really, if I started talking like that, it wouldn't be a Kaku's RAmble (WIP) and you'd think I hired a ghost writer. I know I would.

So, I was suddenly struck with a thought of doing this about what's going on with me personally that's making me the ball of stress and unlovable trash that makes me not want to write as much lately. I'm kind of sorry if you don't like my rambles to be so personal, though, so this is your chance to abort and move on with your life. Not that they don't get personal sometimes, but hey, it's whatever. I might swing back into something a bit less personal and talk about Hiatuses and why creators, I feel, sometimes disappear into them. Regardless, let's begin. The personal bit, I have decided, will be between little arrow-y things. You know the ones.

I don't feel like going into the details here, of course, as to why I am this way, but just a quick statement of facts. Pushing yourself to be the best and to your absolute limit is a fine goal, but you should ABSOLUTELY NEVER go without some form of mental health check-up every so often. Having a goddamn nervous breakdown is not something that should be romanticized, and feeling on the edge of it is a sign that you are not in a good place. Especially if it's stress from a shitty boss on your job, or from taking on too much schoolwork at once. Being "married" to your job is not healthy and it WILL lead you to breaking.>

Alright, now that is off the table, y'all can come back if you don't want personal advice and shit. If you sat through those two paragraphs, though, thanks. Either way, Hiatuses seem to be a bit of an ugly word to non-creative folks, and yet a very commonly used term by creators to show that they might not be making any more of their current content. Whether that be as simple as writing a stupid article about random pop culture things and how stupid they can be, to as complex and hard as writing a weekly web comic about amazing manly men and the interesting adventures they may or may not get into, sometimes we just can't do it anymore and burn out for a while. Sometimes permanently.

However, we also know that we have fans, or at least seem to have people that come back week to week to see what we're serving up. So instead of saying "Yeah this isn't working out, peace." We tend to feel like we owe it to others to say "Look, this may come back, stay tuned." instead of "Fuck off and I don't care if you die in a fire." when we feel obligued to continue something that no longer brings us joy or even enjoyment. Maybe that's just the problem with being a creative mind, but it could also be the problem with having a following.

That's not to say that creators ever hold ill will to their fans wanting them to do something. Heavens no. Our fans are what make doing this stuff worthwhile most of the time. Hell, I know quite a few folks who kept going past having fun with the stuff and into hating everything because they kept being forced to make something that sucked, to them, and was only made to placate the fans. I often wonder if this might be the case for certain TV shows, Movies, and other franchises, but that seems a bit beyond what I'm comfortable speaking upon.

Regardless, I feel like although I did announce a hiatus, and I am still struggling to get back onto the horse, we have at least another week of entries into this series, and maybe we'll get more entries as my brain starts feeling like writing more and more.