A truly eye-snagging title, to be sure...
I'm a creative person, by nature. I'm a freelance RPG designer. I'm a decades-long game master. I'm an artist, gunpla-builder, and podcaster. The last two years have been exceedingly difficult. It's take a lot of energy to drag my extroverted-self through the most isolating time we as a living society have ever encountered. My tribe was forcibly isolated from me, viewable only through the same medium I was forced to perform my day job through (Zoom).
I thankfully had my partner living with me, which helped. But I'm fueled by interaction. I enjoy being around people. It energizes me and makes the creative juices flow.
Lately I've been second guessing my creativity. My stories and plotlines seem dull, contrived, or unoriginal. My artwork bland. It's a real effort to get up to the motivation to do anything for the podcast, or to set up the tools necessary to work on a model.
But I'm trying. I'm throwing a housewarming party this weekend, and it looks like a couple dozen folks will be there. As long as I can keep the now-seated anxiety about COVID ripping through my friends list to a minimum, I should enjoy myself and get some much-needed extrovert power.
Maybe it'll make the get the muse fired up, and slowly edge back towards "creative normal".
