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Authors and Procrastination
Quantus:
The only cure I know for procrastination is boredom. You have to force yourself into a situation/location that you have no other option than to write. Thats my biggest problem. I need my computer to write (even I cannot always read my own handwriting, I should have been a doctor), which is in my living room, where all my distractions are a few clicks away, and my other hobbies are all right there. Im considering buying a cheap laptop just so I can go out to a park or something and isolate myself.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Quantus347 on March 27, 2009, 02:14:15 PM ---The only cure I know for procrastination is boredom. You have to force yourself into a situation/location that you have no other option than to write. Thats my biggest problem. I need my computer to write (even I cannot always read my own handwriting, I should have been a doctor), which is in my living room, where all my distractions are a few clicks away, and my other hobbies are all right there. Im considering buying a cheap laptop just so I can go out to a park or something and isolate myself.
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I tend to do my better writing by hand; it just seems to flow better that way, and typing it up can be a bitch when I come to a word where I can't tell what the hell the letters are, or if I left any out. As for actually using the computer and being distracted, that's part of the reason I bought a Macbook. None of the games I own, aside from Blizzard games that I don't play anymore, will work on it, and I'm too lazy to actually register the copy of Windows I'd installed before. Which was only cause some of the photo software I wanted to use was for Windows only. Or so I thought until I accidentally put the disc in and the open thing just popped up and let me install on OS X. And taking it with me to Borders will keep me from doing crap online cause I'm not gonna pay to use the tmobile hotspot wireless thingie there.
And sometimes it's easier for me to ignore a distraction like email and internet when I have it open in the background. No clue why, but that came about doing homework in high school and sitting in AOL chatrooms at the same time.
THETA:
Character casting. I've posted about it before. It makes you excited to return to your story when you've spent eight hours finding the right face on the internet. I usually don't use well-known actors or actresses. I go for random models or random people whose photos are posted on the internet on photography sites and stuff. Trust me it works. When i completed a story that i posted on this one site i also made a slideshow/video of all my characters looks and posted it on youtube for my readers. It was cool.
Lord Rae:
I'm procrastinating right now!
I'm at work... and since its Saturday there is basically nothing going on work wise. So I brought my stuff in to work on my book while wait for something to happen here. But instead of writing I'm sitting here looking for threads to read and reply to. I even got around to picking myself an avatar. Only took me 300+ posts. ;p
But yeah. I'm pretty bad at procrastinating.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: neurovore on January 26, 2009, 06:56:21 PM ---Not when you make a sale in country A where the mechanisms for paying tax on foreign sales assume you live in country B and you actually live in country C and so the money for the sale hangs indefinitely in limbo because nobody will back down on which documentation is needed where.
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And that is a major ouch and I'm guessing you need some ultra expensive tax person to detangle the mess or ignore it and plan to never travel to that country A ever again? My head is aching just thinking about reading all those forms!
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