I’ve had a game in development stalled for a month because I’m also writing a story, but the story is also half stalled because I’m replaying a game, and I’m already getting frustrated.
It’s something that is starting to bothering me, it seems like I can’t do something if I’m not completely immersed in it: If I want to watch movies or a series, I must do a marathon; if I want to play a game, I must pass it in less than a week; if I want to make a game, I must get into a Crunch because “reasons”; if I want to write, I must work on making it the best story I’ve ever written so far.
Is this normal? should I not worry so much? or how can I better manage the things I want and need to do?
To me, it sounds somewhat like hyper focusing. Are you familiar with ADHD or ASD?
Can’t say if its “normal” or not but I’m exactly the same. It sucks sometimes cause I want to work on multiple things. Developing a project, learning a instrument, learning a new language, training cardio. But I seem to only have time for one at a time. Because I’ll put soo much time into that one. Whichever one is most interesting at the time.
At the same time though I kind of think its a good thing cause when I’m interested in something I can have a lot of fun and make a lot of progress fast.
But yeah if I find a new TV show or game I have to completely finish it before I can get back to being productive.
I don’t know about “normal” (I imagine it depends on how you define “normal”) but I do that and I think it’s fairly common too. Much easier to do 1 thing at a time than many.
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