Devious Journal Entry

The thing about being a hobby writer, you have no obligation to write for people. Even if you post your stories online for others to see and get a small following, you still have no actual requirement to write stuff. It's not a job, you're not getting paid for it, you're not getting prizes or winning a contest or anything. It's just that: a hobby.

That said, knowing that you have people waiting for your next update, sometimes for months at a time, and only being able to give them the occasional reminder that you're not dead, seems like a pretty good motivator, if for no other reason than the guilt factor.

Since hobbies aren't required to be done all the time, this means you can put them aside and work on other things, and nothing important is missed.

(all of this translates to: I've been distracted and unmotivated)

My latest "other thing" is Pokemon-related. I've seen attempts online at organizing Pokemon into a phylogenic tree. You know, sorting them into the whole "Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species" type thing. All the ones I've seen (and can find again), impressive as they are, I've had some kind of nitpicky issue with them. So I figured, why not try it myself?

That's something you don't associate with Pokemon often: SCIENCE!

It's not finished yet, though, for a few reasons. One, I'm only part way through the Johto Pokemon. Two, I left out a few that I can't figure out how to place, and I'll have to get back to them. And three, this too is just a hobby, so I might take breaks from that and work on writing, or Minecraft, or whatever.

That's pretty much it. Just an update on why I've been lazy. Blugh.