Yeah, for me it was sort of like, I had this huge lapse in motivation and didn't create as much stuff for a while. On top of that, my inbox on DA was crazy full 'cuz I never deleted anything so I started avoiding DA due to anxiety. I just had too many unanswered messages and not enough art to post. The first thing I did when I got back on here was delete over 200 old unanswered messages. Meanwhile tumblr was more entertaining, and it took the pressure off 'cuz I could just reblog a bunch of junk in between posting art. So I just switched from DA to tumblr for a while. Really, I can usually only sustain one social media account at a time, which is why I've never gotten a facebook.
Anyway, I don't have a tablet either, but my solution to that has always been to combine my pencil art with photoshop coloring methods. Like, if you look at my pencil sketches, the reason I make all my lines so clean is because I anticipate taking most of the finished sketches directly into photoshop, and I need to be able to make clean selections of the areas I want colored. It's probably more of a pain in the ass than just learning how to use a tablet, but it's what I've gotten used to. ^_^;