From my November 2025 Newsletter
Currently, I feel very 'death by a thousand papercuts' when it comes to my creative life.
No longer can you be the reclusive hermit who appears only to deliver new work and then vanishes away into the lab to tinker away. And honestly, that gets super overwhelming.
Between my day job, creative work, administrative work for the creative work, general life stuff, and everything else, I have between 40 and 60 things on my to-do list almost every day.
Sending out this newsletter has been on that list for about a week and kept getting pushed to the side because honestly, I'm exhausted.
Switching between all of these tasks is exhausting.
I constantly feel like I'm falling behind in something because my brain is scrambled, cycling through the 8000 open tabs filled with all the things I need to be doing.
And then I just start to procrastinate because I'm so overwhelmed I just collapse into a puddle on the floor and do nothing.
It's not a very good system.
I'm trying to get better at working out ways to help make my mind a bit less overwhelmed, but unfortunately (and I can already see my friends yelling at me for this) I have a bad habit of taking on a lot of projects. I have gotten better at not doing this, but it's still very much a work in progress.
The truth is that anyone trying to sell anything right now is wearing every hat imaginable, marketing, analytics, creating, outreach, etc. You name it, and it's on the list of never-ending tasks.
So what am I doing about it?
Honestly, I don't really know yet. I'm starting with some of my usual tactics: setting a timer and trying to race through small tasks (respond to emails, schedule social media posts, etc) as quickly as possible before the timer lets up.
I also am saying no to more things, and trying to focus on completing my existing projects. Ideally I hope to have one more Dungeons and Dragons adventure out this year because it's been like 80% done for a year now.
Anyway, that's where I am. I wish I had a nice, neat resolution about how to fix it, but I really don't. If you have any tricks, tips, or ideas, then let me know!