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hello my friends,
i make music n stuff, and ive noticed how inconsistent i am with making music recently. i always get huge bursts of energy and i work all day every day for like a week, and then i crash and dont work on music for a while. im working on a new album and this process is NOT working well haha. i dont think ill ever finish the album if i keep up with this type of schedule. i was wondering if anybody here has any tips relating to this and how i could get more consistent with my work.
thanks!
Jul 20 · 6 weeks ago · 👍 Addison
Set it down and pick up another hobby until this one energizes you again. I get quickly burnt-out on things and need to take breaks, so having six or seven other things I can hop between keeps me motivated.
If we're at all alike, then once that motivation is gone no amount of strategizing is going to help. It's a brick wall. Take a break and do something else for however long is necessary!
that's fine i think.
and i think everybody experiences this in this or that way.
i guess the goal is not to release the album, but the goal is to have fun and enjoy the process of creating?
you don't have the investors and the board and they don't demand to get more money than they invested from you, and they don't demand you to release as early as possible.
you do what you enjoy doing.
i have open source projects, and i know i may not work on a project for six months, then work on it for a week, then not work on it for a long time. that's fine. but over the years you see that the project matures.
and as a photographer i must say that some projects are life long, or are measured by decades. you collect this kind of photos, but you collect that kind of photos over the years. and you never know when you finished. maybe you have an exhibition with that theme one day ten years later but that does not mean the project is over. you can continue to update it.
maybe photography and code make me feel like that. but if i was doing music (i am trying from time to time) i would try to have the source in a way, i would be able to update it later.
as a filmmaker... (omg sorry, when i was a student, i was doing short films) i was always feeling bad that i cannot keep all the raw video files and the project file of the video editor. because later i would want to come back to it and reedit maybe. and release a minor update to the same video. (:
that's also i think fine and we'll come to it. because we have authors who write books and they have newer and newer editions of the same book.
let's say charles petzold has several editions of his 'code' and niklaus wirth had many inerations of 'algorithms and data structures', first it was 'algorithms + data structures = programs' for pascal, then 'algorithms and data structures' for modula-2, then 'algorithms and data structures' for oberon, then updated edition for oberon.
I am very bursty with my work, and rotate between several things (software, hardware, playing instruments, photography, reading a lot of fiction, being social, lately, learning Spanish, etc). I tend to go all in, do a lot, and get tired/annoyed with whatever it is, until the next time. There seem to be cycles that last between months and years. I'm still learning to deal with it, but consistency was never my thing.
❄ kirbycrow64 [OP] · Jul 22 at 02:54:
thank you all very much for the input! i really appreciate it
i decided to give you two links about burnout society, on how we whip ourselves to work: