Demotivation, Disinterest, & Self-destruction
Hi, It’s me Ari Song aka Admin: Sxng. Please, please take the time to read this, I am literally begging. It has been around two years I think since I have made a serious post like this. I’m going to section this into the 3 different things I bring up in the title of this post.
I have steadily been losing my motivation for this blog since around mid-2018. No one interacts with my blog anymore. I feel like the personality of my blog is gone, I feel like now no matter what I write someone will read it just because it is there. Since it is fanficiton someone will read it, I have been trying to ignore that for around a year. I can’t ignore it anymore, I really can’t. I spent two days near the beginning of August crying because I wasn’t sure when I would be able to write again, but when I came to check on my blog it didn’t matter really.
I’m pretty sure no one noticed I was gone. I didn’t post but one time in July, I made a hiatus post (that I later deleted), but I don’t know if anyone saw it or not, because no one interacted. I didn’t even get an ask. I’m not saying people have to interact with my blog or my personal/update posts, but it really is so disheartening to feel like I don’t matter. Anyone could be writing these posts & it wouldn’t effect anything. For a long time I didn’t understand why I started to feel this way. I do understand why now.
To explain why I started to feel this way I need to talk about intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. When I started this blog, it was, to me an “intrinsic reward” I had a community of people that was relatively small to where I knew most of them. I felt satisfied with my work and I was doing it more for me than I was for others. Somewhere along the line it became more about validation and less about my satisfaction. Which would make it an extrinsic award because I was trying to obtain something. Extrinsic rewards don’t work for me long term. I really feel like I lost part of myself working to make other people happy, I work as a freelance writer too now so I never write for myself anymore.
My freelance writing and my blog feel the same to me. I feel like I’m writing for a client constantly, that is the only way I can think to explain it in simpler words.
I have become detached from this blog. I became indifferent to it, I stopped putting my all into the scenarios that I wrote, I just wrote them because I felt like I had to. Since they were requests. I really tried to keep myself interested because I love writing. I am not disinterested with writing, I have 3 novels of my own, a collab with my brother, and I’m translating a novel for my Thai friend Sung. I still love to write, I’ve just lost what I like about Pocket-scenarios. I have nostalgia for this blog and I am not giving it up. I just do not know when I will be back or if I will ever get back to the level of interest and care I had for this blog. I did and I do genuinely love this blog. You can look at my masterlist and tell that I do care about this blog, if I didn’t I would not have bothered to set it up the way it is.
I feel like for me to solve my disinterest issue I might have to step away from request work for awhile and focus on posts that I want to make instead.
I am going to give a trigger warning before this part: A suicide attempt is briefly mentioned in this section.
I made this blog in August of 2016, but the original team of admins that I had those being: Myself(Babyboiii), Yuna(WWT), Guiying(WS), Hiroi(FairyTimoteo), and Hua(KF) we had been working together since the end of the previous year. I started writing fanfiction as an escape after a Suicide attempt that happened in October of 2015. I had written some before then, but I started posting it after that attempt. It helped me a lot when I built a community, people would respond to my A’Ns and actually talk to me, it helped me to pull myself back together, I had something to look forward to.
I am not going to lie I feel like I let this blog consume me too much, I let it get too far to the point that I felt like this blog was all I had. So when my interactivity started to go down, it scared me, I started to lose motivation. When I realized I was becoming demotivated I still kept pushing myself to write, and yeah, the grammar got better, but the actual substance of my scenarios is lacking I can admit that myself. I hated that I was becoming like that and I fell into some bad habits again, I am extremely thankful to my roommate because he has been helping me a lot since my injury and mental decline.
I started to have really bad thoughts last month. I didn’t act on them because, I live with someone else. It is kinda sad that the only reason I did not attempt suicide again was because of him, but I’m also glad he is staying with me for that fact alone. I am not going to dig deeper into my self-destruction I just wanted to briefly go over it.
I didn’t check my grammar on this, forgive me. I can hardly type and this took me from the 3rd to the 25th to actually finish typing. What I am going to do is basically I am going to step back, this blog is going to be in indefinite hiatus, or I will be at least.
Thank you for reading this.