I created a #gopher hole at gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/trdaisuke/

I'll be crossposting my posts here going forward.

This post originally hit the smolweb on 11 June 22 at gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/trdaisuke/Another.txt

Well it's maybe time for another post, but I don't know what to write 
about.

Is there a thing I can do on gopher to automatically put my thoughts into 
words? I know this is a feature lacking on the web but I have heard good 
things about gopher, so I was hoping maybe it had this feature.

These lines are pretty long, huh. I wonder if gopher does word wrapping 
or if I'll have to come back and edit this later.

Isn't this a bit funny? How many times do I need to try to start writing 
while still not really writing much of anything?

I don't really have an answer to that, but as Dr. House said, you always 
look smarter asking the questions rather than dumbly not answering 
questions.

I'll come up with some more questions to not answer for my next post. 
Please look forward to it.

I created a #gopher hole at gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/trdaisuke/
I'll be crossposting my posts here going forward.

This post originally hit the smolweb on 10 June 22 at gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/trdaisuke/First.txt although as you will read it was originally written much earlier...

Originally written 4 October 2020.

10 June 2022 addendum: Yikes... for real? Have I really been just 
thinking about making a gopher for 20 months? Well, at least I've finally 
gotten around to putting it up.
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Lately I've felt like I can't write anything more than a few sentences at 
a time, so I thought I would set up a little gopher hole here to try to 
get in the swing of writing again.

It's particularly devastating to me to have this mental block against 
writing since I was a writer all through college and studied creative 
writing as my major. Notice I didn't say "writer's block" - it's far 
worse than that. Writer's block usually connotes a block against writing 
in some project or work. But for me right now, it's practically 
everything. Work emails, social media posts, even to-do lists seem to 
paralyze me.

I can't figure out why or what caused this block. Is it as if once the 
word is written, I've lost control of it? I can't change it or take it 
back? It's also possible it's a result of the turmoil in the world right 
now. Maybe I'm so unsettled by what's going on out there that prevents me 
from getting in a writing frame of mind. Or maybe it's my general 
transformation from a creative person to a more conventionally-minded 
person. Or frankly, it might be because I've gotten worse at focusing and 
minimizing distractions.

In any case, I'm bothered by it, so I'll be trying this as a form of 
active practice. It has been some time since I've kept a written personal 
journal. Maybe this will help me to get over this slump.

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Includes videos of each first clear this tier:

https://blog.trdaisuke.com/2020/05/5-2-raid-tier-recap/

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