I gave up. I died in 2025.
Yes, you read the title right. WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD. In 2025, I gave up. My last post (on my website) was in the summer of '25. I was editing away on my website. Adding all this "never seen before" content, making podcasts and beginning work on a new video series that I filmed back in 2024. (My Side of the Camera.) Somewhere in there, I got loaded down with a lot of work that was not related to my art. And I got discouraged. I literally gave up. I stopped making podcasts because I had nothing to talk about. I stopped editing my website because I was too busy to. Time to work on my video series was non existent, so I stopped work on that too. Everything. I quit everything. I stopped making time for my art. I stopped creating. I stopped doing the things that set my soul on fire. I felt like I was going nowhere as an artist. Couldn't get hardly any bookings. I felt like maybe I should be doing something else. Even though, this is what I love. ...