addicted to immediate gratification

[kuroilotus]

I know that everyone probably goes through this feeling at times, the feeling of absolute utter futility. I've been feeling it more and more lately in connection with what I call my 'legitimate' writing. My legitimate writing is the writing I do based on my own characters, settings, and plots. Everything else is ficcing to me. It is however

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[myfebruarysong]

I feel the same way a lot of the time when I am in a game. Which is why I had to limit my tagging to once in the morning and once at night per character or I'd sit there all day tagging and not get anything done on my own work, work that I hope to get paid from some day.

I have also made a promise to myself that I will do nothing before I write at least three pages in the morning. It can be all total crap, it can be the same sentence or the same word over and over for three pages, but nothing else is allowed to be done before I do it, or I will not make myself sit and work on my book even though I enjoy it.