I don’t think I’m alone in having a menagerie of personal projects. The constituents of said menagerie morph (some slowly, some quickly) as time passes, but it’s never empty. It hasn’t been empty since… high school? Earlier?
Yes, it’s sometimes disheartening to see how little progress I make on so many different fronts. Though, by simply writing out that sentence, I get just an inkling of how ridiculous it sounds.
But these projects, simply, keep me sane. I love creating things; I love building things; I love trying something out in the real world that is often outside the narrow purview of what my immediate employer is looking for. I like trying things for things’ sakes, though sometimes there is also a practical reason.
Lately I’ve been trying to get a new outdoor wildlife camera setup working. It’s a bit more technically complicated than the one I posted about last year so it’s taking me a bit longer to get things working. But I’m really enjoying doing it.
Personal projects are, after all, all about delight.
Like most things, I think when it comes to #WeblogPomo2024, it’ll be a cadence of “when I can” as opposed to “EVERY F#$&ING DAY OR DIAF”. After all, if I’m writing a nontrivial fraction of the number of words Sir Terry Pratchett wrote on a daily basis during his illustrious career, I’d say I’m doing pretty well.
Citation
@online{quinn2024,
author = {Quinn, Shannon},
title = {\#WeblogPoMo2024, {Day} 7: {The} Importance of Personal
Projects},
date = {2024-05-07},
url = {https://magsol.github.io/2024-05-07-weblogpomo2024-day-7-the-importance-of-personal-projects},
langid = {en}
}