Update!!

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've written here. I wish I could say I had a really good excuse for why I haven't been keeping up with this page the way I hoped to when I started it, but I think the honest reasoning is that I just haven't felt inspired to write much in the past few months.

I graduated college in May with a degree in creative writing (that I am very proud to have), but I have run extremely dry on motivation and inspiration since finishing and submitting all of my finals. I think it is relatively common for students to feel burnt out after a strenuous school year, but I sort of assumed I was somewhat exempt from those kinds of feelings because they had never hit me before this final semester. I don't know why, but I never really expected to want to take a break from writing all the time. School has turned me off of recreational reading in the past, but I have never not wanted to take the time to sit down and write until I finally had this degree I had worked so hard for. I know you are supposed to write whether you feel inspired or not and I know it is a constant cycle that has its own pace for every individual (because I did actually go to the classes I paid so much money for), but I did not want to sit down and write something I would not be proud of. Which, again, I recognize is a faulty thing in itself, because you usually have to push out mediocre work in order to get through to the good stuff, but I just didn't feel like doing that either. I've been feeling a wide range of emotions in a very mundane way, dealing with a lot of big changes in my life by not moving much at all, and I think this pause from writing was just part of that mental choice to sit still for as long as I could manage to.

Honestly, I had a pretty eventful and exciting summer following my graduation. I got to celebrate so much, travel a little, and I spent a lot of good time with the people close to me. I had plenty of inspiring things going on around me, I just never really had a strong enough urge to sit down and try to capture any of it. I tried writing a few blog posts. I have a half-assed post written about Dominic Fike in my drafts right beneath a half-finished post about the Hinterland music festival. I gathered up the pictures I was going to include for several other shows I went to following those. I just didn't want to put together a post I was not proud of, and nothing I started felt right to me. I don't know why, it just wasn't working much for me this summer.

However! All that being said! I do really enjoy writing and posting on here. I love to talk about my experiences at shows and live music reviews are some of my favorite things to read online, so I do really want to keep this thing going. I think I may go back and write about older things as well, especially because I have gone to 12 concerts since the last one I posted about and so many of them were incredible experiences seeing some of my favorite artists. We will see! I honestly love to write these for myself just as much as I like to post them, and I really do hope to keep this inspiration kick going. I actually sat down with my computer to write about how much the Quarters of Change show last week "changed my life" and this little bit of word vomit is what came out instead... so I guess expect a QOC post very soon! I feel like I personally needed to sit here and type all of this out in order to get out of this anti-writing rut I've been in, and I already feel like it worked. Let's all hope it really did.

Having people read this means more to me than y'all will ever know. Thanks for sticking with me through my writer's drought ;) More to come very soon.

- Drew