I took a week off from Dev.to. Not a planned one — I just sat down last Sunday and realized I had nothing left.
Eighteen stories into a 36-story series, and my tank was empty. So I didn't post a single article for a full week. I'd pop into the comments section now and then, but that was it.
The day job was still there, but I stopped staying up till 1:30 AM writing like I did when the series first started. I adjusted to a 10 PM bedtime instead.
Then on Friday afternoon, something happened. I spent twenty minutes writing a rant about bugs and layoffs, hit publish, and went back to doing nothing.
When I checked back on Sunday, that rant had more eyeballs on it than most of my 36 Stratagems stories.
