I'm stuck in the war gamers doldrums, and I don't mean a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific. I mean stagnation: a state of inactivity (in business or art etc). I think many gamers go through this. Periods of low motivation, in which the act of painting and modeling loses it's appeal. My longest strech lasted six years - I'm feeling it again now.
The fact is I have plenty to paint, and plenty to model, but I'm having a hard time 'wanting' to. I'm finding excuses not to paint far too easily. Take last weekend as an example. I had two days off before the weekend, and ended up with a wonderful four day weekend. Exactly how much painting did I do? Squat. And not the unmentionable lost race in 40k, I mean nothing.
So how do I get out of the slump? Gaming helps, but I'm nearly two weeks away from the next game, and I found that even leading up to the last game, I was still pretty unmotivated.
The fact is the tournament gave me such a charge and a firm deadline I painted hell for leather just to get there in time. Now, with no tournament on the horizon, my motivation is waning again. Perhaps I need to start planning my list for the next tournament - or maybe I just need to make sure I'm painting at least every other day. Either way, I don't want to give up and go another six years, so I need to find something to motivate me again.
One thing I will try to do shortly is to post some close up shots of my tournament models. Most are not 'done' painting wise (they still need highlighting) but I'll put up some pix of the ones which are done - like my big mek, or my Nob Bikers. Maybe that will motivate me to paint the rest.
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