Dateline 5-24-2017

Yesterday I was expressing my concerns about depression vs quality of work, or at least the quality of topic that I choose to explore. This is kind of a reoccurring theme when it comes to these Daily Breaker posts. I just want to be clear that at this point, now that I have an actual challenge on, this content quality that I am concerned about specifically refers to this segment of my site.

When it comes to the challenges that I report on, I have a topic at hand which creates focus and requires far less thought wrangling to come up with something to say. It's these daily thoughts that I have to pull out of the air that I see depression as a crutch to help me come up with more interesting things to say.

I don't know if I really credit the depression, well, I do, but it's not the fact that I'm depressed that I see as beneficial but it seems to a cheat to put me in the same frame of mind that I get to in the middle of the night when the rest of the sleep. In both cases, I feel like I'm able to detach from the rat race to then document the thoughts going through my head as I attempt to make my escape.

I never really made this connection until this morning when I was thinking of something to say. Who knows, this may be my first step in figuring out how to tap into the energy I'm after no matter my mental state. I think as soon as I figure this aspect of my writer's mind figured out, to where I allow myself unguarded access to all of my thoughts at any time, I will finally be able to find my true blogger's voice.

I do feel that I've been making continuous progress over the past couple of years and I'm thankful to anyone who has tuned in to follow along during any step along the way.

Talk to you tomorrow with another update.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker