Sorry for the late reply! LJ obviously isn't sending my alerts again for some reason. XD
This is really a hard one. FEEL is particularly insidious, because when when you're in the middle of giving yourself an out (or at least when I am) you aren't really actively thinking about it.
I should write.
Nah, don't feel like it.
*3 hours later* Oh hell, I did it again.
When you catch yourself at it, even hours down the road, I find it helps to set a timer, sit yourself down, and make yourself write for ten minutes right then and there. Ten minutes is nothing in the grand scheme of your day, but it'll do one of two things: Either it'll warm you up and you'll keep going and get some good work done, or at the very minimum, at least you'll have made SOME progress, and that's better than none at all.
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This is me. And I so need to work on this.
I used to write at night. I used to write at lunch. I'd write stories in my head during my lovely commute to/from work. And now?
I need to figure out how to hide those distractions that lurk on my desktop...and the excuses I give myself.
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This is really a hard one. FEEL is particularly insidious, because when when you're in the middle of giving yourself an out (or at least when I am) you aren't really actively thinking about it.
I should write.
Nah, don't feel like it.
*3 hours later* Oh hell, I did it again.
When you catch yourself at it, even hours down the road, I find it helps to set a timer, sit yourself down, and make yourself write for ten minutes right then and there. Ten minutes is nothing in the grand scheme of your day, but it'll do one of two things: Either it'll warm you up and you'll keep going and get some good work done, or at the very minimum, at least you'll have made SOME progress, and that's better than none at all.
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