Dev monthly Life Cycle (death-cycle) ! (Patreon)

So.... The Cycle continues...  And by that I mean my monthly Dev cycle for the past  number of months have all been the same.  I keep thinking it's going to be different, but nope!  The cycle is as follows:

Week 1:  Take it relatively easy for the first 2 days because I'm still happy I got the last update complete.  Then as the week closes, I start upping the workload as I begin to feel overwhelmed about how much work I need to do and start to think I'll be lucky if I get this episode out in 5 months, never mind 1.

Week 2:  Things start to take shape.  The individual scenes and nuggets of script start turning from an abstract into something real and I start thinking... Cool, I'm back in the groove.  And I laugh whimsically about why the hell "Week 1 Me" felt overwhelmed.  This month will be a breeze.  I might even finish ahead of time and start looking into animation tutorials or add in Full audio. 

Week 3:  Panic kicks in as I realize I was just kidding myself in week 2 and cannot even remember what the fuck I was wasting my time on in week 1 (grinning like a fucking idiot because I got an episode out).I know there's no way I'm going to get everything done.  And instead of making progress I start critiquing and changing the stuff I've already done.  If I could get my hands on "week 2 me" I'd choke the fucking life out of the whimsical bastard.  And don't get me started on "week 1 me".  Spent half his week posting shit on Discord / Patreon and all other forums instead of fucking working.  And speaking of work, I start thinking of excuses to call in sick to work to make more time for development and then realize my Boss has to realize that I've had fourteen grandmother deaths over the past two years, so that gets scratched.  Commit to sleeping  4 hours a night for the next two weeks and ALL other non-essential activities are banned (t.v., speaking to my girlfriend, gaming, whiskey, No!  Never whiskey, always time for that sweet nectar!)

Week 4:  Madness kicks in.  Haven't slept in 3 days.  Haven't eaten in 4 days (except that sweet brown stuff I found under the keyboard).  I am cursing myself for ever starting this Dev nightmare plus every other person that ever developed a game.

I am googling "How to fake your own death" articles.  I spend every waking minute either developing or thinking about developing (some of those romance scenes you like might have been thought up while I was taking a ... well you get the idea!).

Considering hiring a private detective to get me an address for the person who created DAZ, so I can hunt him down and end him (disclaimer - this article is only a parody and I have no ill-feelings to anyone related to DAZ).