Motivation

I was talking with a friend yesterday and, as is typical of any conversation with this particular friend, we talked about video games. Along the way, we spoke of making games since we both dabble (though he is far more accomplished than I). He asked how my current project (Rustbot) was faring and I explained how I need to start pretty much over from scratch due to my poor coding discipline. I explained that it had become a system of tweaks, bridges and band-aids as a result of fairly nonexistant planning and that I would have to scrap it all if I wanted it to be halfway decent.

Now, I haven't worked on Rustbot since the last post wherein I described the need to overhaul it. That was almost two weeks ago. The reason for the rather large gap is that the task of starting over is substantially daunting and I had allowed myself to be defeated by it. Occasionally I would load up Dev-C++ to start working, but it was always a feint; I closed the environment as soon as I opened the project, overwhelmed and unmotivated.

So when I explained to my friend that I needed to start over, he kinda shrugged and said "That's the process sometimes - build, break, refactor, rebuild. The creative process is never cut and dry."

And today I'm reinvigorated. It might be because I actually overdosed on Minecraft yesterday, but I do think it was a bit of a spark kindled by the above words that has now driven me to this state of eagerness to work. The only problem is I have to spend the day doing the work for which I actually get paid. That's what evenings are for, I guess.

So, thanks.