I do most of my writing on the weekends, and I feel like this most recent weekend has just been a marathon of consuming tons of anime even though it really hasn’t been that much (and most likely won’t seem like that much to readers, since this will be getting posted later in the week). It’s not the “watching” part of the equation that’s so much work for me, it’s all the writing that comes afterward. While I’ve changed my process quite a bit from how I was writing first impression posts previously, I still have to work diligently to write something I’m personally happy with and which encapsulates the feelings I want to express. I’ve found that if I slack off, even for a little bit, it becomes very easy to justify slacking off even more… which is why there are still several anime seasons where I’ve never completed the full set of reviews. I’ve been lucky that I’ve had some convenient days off during the last several weeks, so I haven’t had to balance the workload from my day job with that from my hobby.
Note: Some language and imagery related to Interspecies Reviewers is NSFW. That review appears last in this group.