# Preface Date: 18 April 2026 This always seems to happen. I get gung-ho about doing all these things, and then I start crashing into burnout. Well, I'm getting better. And with that comes reviewing what I've already done so that I can make good changes. This is so I can work more steadily without really going into burnout. I'm still working on my visual novel. I've created a way to make a mind map. A sort of dialogue tree that will hopefully make more sense to my team as we progress. And we can make changes easily to the tree - prune it, to go with gardening vocab. School is about to end. And I don't know how I feel about that. This semester I've seen and welcomed so much change that I almost feel like a completely different person. There's been so much that I'm working on that it's no wonder I became burnt out for a month. I will have some time off before the summer semester begins, and I'll be busy with these writing projects in that time. It all feels like it's just now beginning, now that I look back. It's pretty awesome. And I got to apply to the Frei Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) recently. Pretty excited to hear back from them. And I got a rejection from my first publication. Apparently I made it to the second round - which is hella good I've been told. Let's continue writing and drawing in the months to come!