Coming out of a slump

I write video game guides, or, if you want to phrase it another way, "FAQs" (Frequently Asked Questions), for GameFAQs.com (http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/49342.html). While I don't get paid for this, I do find it rather enjoyable, and incredibly worthwhile, for not only my own satisfaction, but also, more importantly, because I love helping people. It is my hope that those who read my guides will find the assistance they've been looking for, and if not, well at least I tried.

Anyhow, enough backstory, let's cut to the chase, shall we? I've completed just a little over a dozen FAQs, as well as some reviews. Indeed, I was churning out FAQs left and right back in the day, circa 2004-2006. It was all I did. My only completed FAQ in 2007 was Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii. In July 2008, I purchased the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, and almost immediately took it upon myself to write a FAQ for it, having not written one in quite some time at that point (nearly a year).

I thought that my FAQing slump, which had been ongoing since at least the beginning of 2007 (again, save Super Paper Mario, I didn't write for anything else during that year, and this continued into 2008 until the purchase of Final Fantasy IV), was finally about to come to an end. I was wrong. Upon writing the walkthrough section all the way up until the final dungeon, Lunar Subterrane, the arrival of Hurricane Gustav necessitated a cessation in my writing of the guide. Being without electricity for five days following the storm had apparently caused me to lose a great deal of motivation to finish what I had started.

After the storm had passed and electricity was restored, I found that I had virtually no motivation to continue FAQing. Thus, after much contemplating, I decided to remove it from GameFAQs. Unfortunately, due to my enormous degree of laziness, I opted not to remove it from the other sites on which it was hosted (such as IGN and Neoseeker). Hence, I continued to be bombarded with emails pertaining to help with the game for several weeks after its GameFAQs removal.

So anyway, fast forward to April of 2010, and I've finally managed to rekindle the long-lost motivation that I knew was buried deep within me. I have decided to begin writing a FAQ for Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, a ridiculously awesome JRPG for the Playstation 2 with an interestingly complex plot that spans multiple games (this is only the first game in the series). I am undecided if I will be writing for Xenosaga II and III, but keep checking my blog, because you never know. I just might!

Hopefully, this signifies the end to my enormously long FAQ hiatus.