hiatus announcement
Phew hi everyone! I doubt anyone’s going to be surprised by this, but I’m putting amygdala on an indefinite hiatus. I wrote up a big multi-paragraph thing chronicling my journey and basically justifying this hiatus, but it all felt a bit too superfluous and self-aggrandizing to me so... take two.
2020 has been a rough year for everyone. But for me, it’s also been a year of wake-up calls. I won’t go into that too much except to say that, as far as amygdala is concerned, it really re-hammered home for me how intrinsically linked the “cautionary sci-fi” tale and real life are. I set this story in the future when, in reality, all the worst-case scenario things i was writing about are already here. And seeing that play out in real time has changed how this story feels to me.
It’s kind of hard to describe why the artificial disconnect switched off (or even existed in the first place), but as someone who writes mainly as a hobby in their free time, it feels bizarre and in poor-taste to continue writing this in its current setting (to me--this isn’t an indictment of anyone else writing a story with similar themes). It has gone from feeling like a fun story that i could write to decompress to this heavy, grandiose statement on society today and... that’s not what i set out to do. I don’t think I have the ability or skill to do that sort of story justice, let alone the justification.
So I need to pump the breaks on this amygdala for the indefinite future. I need to do some soul searching and figure out whether I even can continue, and if so, what that continuation looks like. I’m sure this is upsetting to a lot of people and I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for supporting me and sticking with this story for so so long. It was my baby for a long time (still is) and getting so much positive feedback from so many people has been super encouraging and humbling. And I’m sorry I can’t give a timeline or definitive answer regarding when and if this will continue.
As some of you may know, I do have another game that I’m working on @divineinterventiongame. It’s a very different story and I know that means not everyone will be interested, so no worries if it’s just not your cup of tea, but if you want to continue following me and like my writing, please feel free to jump over there and check that game out (if you’re not already).
Thank you all again, and hope you’re all taking care of yourselves and loved ones.