Changes

It's been a while.

Despite all the seemingly regular post schedules, I left this blog to go fallow for a couple of months while I took a break and decided what I wanted to do. Yes - I forgot the blog password, couldn't log in, and had to manually recreate all the posts. How bloody annoying.

So back in July I decided to quit for a bit from my indie aspirations and set some time aside to think about if I really wanted to do it all. Some would call this burnout; I don't think that is the right term simply because I hadn't really done much - I was burnt out on the ideas rather than the practice.

I let go of the obligations I'd made to myself to keep going and instead I took a break and let my mind wander.

Guess what? It came back to the original point.

Simpletenders is a brand. It has potential, and it's anchored on what I know. I'd be insane not to take advantage of that - especially as sharing the knowledge is farf easier than learning something else from scratch.

I tried learning programming over and over again, and I can't really stick with it. So for the smaller apps I'm planning to build I'll just use AI tools to help, and get an understanding of the code as it progresses. I'm not trying to change the world, I'm just trying to put an idea out there with as much supporting content as I can muster.

What I am much happier with is that the thoughts and tinkering with the Simpletenders guide outline has resulted in a better structure and I'm happy with it. Now I have some small steps to make to shape it a little more, then it's off to editing land to make it shine.

I'm reminding myself constantly that this is draft 1.0. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough to get published. I can always change it and update it later.

And everything else - all the aspirations around being indie, programming, all the rest of it that just complicated the message and served as procrastination have been dropped.

I'm a writer. I write. The next step is publishing what I've written.