Over the past couple of years my writing output has gone way down (like 99.99% down, haha) from whatever you might call my “peak” output. There are a lot of reasons for this that I think at least some people might relate to. Firstly, I had a kid; while I don’t think being busy is limited to people with offspring, I’ve found that, for me, the mental space that parenting takes up has tended to push out a lot of other things that haven’t been immediately necessary. Secondly, the internet has gone through some changes that have been difficult to navigate. There was the fall of Twitter/X (yes, I know it still exists but it’s not been a place I’ve wanted to be for a long time; I’ve started spending more time on Bluesky though), but I think even bigger has been the rise of AI Large Language Models and how that may be contributing to some of the apprehensive feelings I’ve had to engaging online.
