Tiny Little Burnouts

How do people do anything at all? And how do they do it consistently? What's the secret to doing things (why wasn't I told)? And why does my therapist keep telling me I should probably get screened for ADHD? There are many questions in life and none of the answers will solve my problems, because I still would have to do stuff once I knew what I should be doing. I'm tired of doing stuff. I had a couple weeks there where it was fine but now I'm done for a bit.

I'm currently taking a small break from making my small video game I started making a small time ago. I got most of the tile swapping stuff figured out in GB Studio and I think, as a result, it will be the greatest text adventure you can beat in about an hour ever made (for Game Boy). This will maybe come out in the fall? Who knows. I have not set any sort of deadline because I want this project to be fun. Hence the break!

I'm still mulling over the script for the short film Max and I filmed late last fall. Making the film semi-backwards like this was always going to be a challenge but on top of all the other challenges, the project's fallen a bit by the wayside. I hope to get something in the form of a 2nd or 3rd draft sent to my co-director before too long! It'll be nice to show off my first finished film in a long time, plus I got a bunch of other Super 8 cartridges burning a hole in my filing cabinet. I wanna go Ektachrome Mode!!

The 11th Annual Nicky Flowers Summer Single should be arriving sometime in August! Frankly, I haven't gotten anything done on that front yet at all. My musicmaking abilities have sorta crusted over while not being used as often so I have to take a week or two to loosen up the muscles. It'll probably be something fun and silly out of my Volcas and into my Tascam 424mkII. It's a yearly tradition I can't just give up on!

Very Little News took a slight break on account of my publishing schedule clashing with the surgery pretty hard but my funy little newspaper should have another issue out by the end of this month. If you're a subscriber, thank you SO much for your continued patience and support. If you're not a subscriber, you can become one very easily and claim that nice thank you I gave in the previous sentence for yourself. I've got a few bits of reader-submitted material I'm very excited to share with everyone, as well as whatever the hell I come up with this weekend (maybe).

I'm sure it's obvious now that I have many wonderful things I could be doing at the moment. But I'm not. Right now, I'm resting. That's important too, no matter how much it annoys me. It's so annoying and necessary to take care of yourself. Wait, hold on, I just got a really good idea for a new project, I gotta pitch it to someone real quick.

Nicky Flowers - 07/25/25 - I wish I could do more than take it a day at a time, which can be hard by itself. 2 days at a time would be nice—that's twice the time! - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)