hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox
for like a week and a half i've been trying to write this vn and i can only seem to wring out maybe three hours of it a day before some kind of well runs dry (or conversely it takes me so long to fill the well that there are only three hours left in the day by the time i start)
and the upshot of this is that my day is 3 hours of writing and 13 hours of stressing about not writing
which feels like a staggeringly bad use of time
Three hours of writing? Damn you're killing it, I usually do zero
Jokes aside, I think this is normal. I'm assuming you're not literally doing nothing but worry for those 13 hours, which like, yeah, you're pretty much spot on, you need to let your writing ability recharge, and luckily you can do that asynchronously with other mental tasks.
Think of it like, in a video game where you have multiple weapons with individual cooldowns, but you can let one cool down or regenerate ammo or something like that while it's sitting on your belt, and you're actively using a different one. The brain is like that too.
But again, if you're actually getting three hours of writing on paper a day, that's genuinely super good. You seem like you're doing good to me in general. I don't say that to diminish your stress, I say that to compliment you and reenforce that you seem like you're on the right path, at least assuming I interpreted the actual situation from your post correctly.
3 hours per day is a really good rate of writing, you dont have to feel bad about that fr, like dont get hung up on your numbers because even the ones that seem under your control can vary wildly and always pushing yourself for more (regardless of how well your doing) is probly gonna make you resent the work
I'd argue the problem is the stressing about not writing the rest of the time. Three hours spent writing it seems good!
... I probably should listen to this advice regarding my own game-dev-vs-not cycle in my own waking hours.
This is how writing a VN works.
I don't recommend what I ended up doing, which was designing and scripting ever more complicated ATL features in the VN to put off actually writing dialogue for the VN.
