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for me, part of my strategy is remaining organized and eliminating anything that may impede the songwriting process.  that and being intentional about carving out time for writing, any time that i can - even if that amount of time only amounts to 5-10 mins at a time.

for one, i have a half-hour commute to/from work via rail, so much of my writing happens on the train.

i have all my music programs installed on my work computer - BGB w/ LSDJ, schism tracker, famitracker, audacity, EMS cart drivers, SAV management utils, etc., so that i can fire it up when i have short breaks.  even if i have 5 minutes to mess around, that's enough time to at least start a new musical idea. 

i now have much of that work synced through Google Drive so that i can save my work to the cloud automatically and continue it at home, or vice versa, with no fuss.

one more thing, i know this may be a luxury for some, but try to promise yourself that you won't work for more than X # of hours a week.  this is more of a general time/resource management thing at work but the greater the effort you make to not let your work bleed into the other parts of your life, the more incentive you have to write when you've gone through all the trouble of getting the time to do so.

Oh, one thing that i found that may or may not be obvious.  if you already have this setup on one computer, and you'd like to set up another computer, it's best to set the SAV directory via editing BGB.INI before opening BGB

if you open BGB and set the SAV path in the Options dialog, you'll automatically overwrite the SAV in the cloud with your BGB's currently-loaded SAV when you close BGB - and BGB might be running an empty or old SAV at that moment.

of course, if that does happen, you can always revert to the desired revision in Google Drive, but nonetheless, a potentially annoying side effect you might want to avoid when you set up new instances of BGB for the cloud.

well, looks like the info about the CPU viewer on the BGB website got taken off, so i guess there's the answer.  boo!

would have been nice though, i remember reading a couple of articles about how in order to have a 100% accurate emulation there are devs who are trying to model the physical properties of a CPU's circuit pathways (which would require insane amounts of CPU power to simulate).

i have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and i work as a frontend web developer by day.  i'm fortunate that it was my "dream job" in the sense that
1) i very well could have instead gotten a Generic Programming Job at Nameless Software Company
2) i'm working at a design/marketing studio, which was where i wanted to end up after university.

having said that, the rose-tinted glass have lost their effect, as i quickly realized that even at a "dream job" it's still a kind of burger flipping, just like any other job.  web design used to be a hobby of mine.  now, it's mainly The Thing I Do To Get Money.

that's why i'm wary about the prospect of pursing music professionally.  i think i COULD do it, and i'm passionate about it, but i don't want that passion to get reduced down to churning out product for stakeholders whose vision i don't necessarily share.  that's what happened to my passion for web development.

right now, i think i'm fine with the way things are and i feel i have an acceptable equilibrium.  my job might not be my passion per se, but its the thing that allows me to pursue the things i AM passionate about.  to make this possible, i try to set things up at work so that i will never have to work beyond the required 40-hour work week.

i think adopting the notion that you HAVE to make your passion your job can be too idealistic and can breed disappointment and foolish decisions.  i mean, i'm a musician, that's a thing that i would like to have expressed through my life, but there are other things too: a professional; a productive self-sustaining member of society; even a future husband/father one day.  To me, pursing music is but one of several paths i can take to realize these facets of myself, it all depends on what the risk/reward is at any given moment i think.   but "pursuing something practical" doesn't need to be the dead-end you may think it is.

it's like most times when i'm stupid enough to arrive at a venue half an hour early, only to sit down on a chair and watch nothing.

sweet lineup and stream though, will def be catching it once i get home from work!

the massive orgy that one time was pretty neat