Comments | pico_the_great: this has been going on, on-and-off, for months now. this is a bad thing.

pico_the_great

this has been going on, on-and-off, for months now. this is a bad thing.

Jul 06, 2011 05:34

So apparently it's not just that I need outside-imposed schedules to make my writing-brain happy. It's that I need outside-imposed schedules to function, otherwise I regress into a functionless lump, surfing the internet all day, leaving my apartment only to eat or get food and toilet paper, and turn my livingspace into a rat's nest of rotting ( Read more... )

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historicula July 6 2011, 12:34:05 UTC

You need a schedule, a definitive hard-lined schedule, that won't let you get away with things.

Also, lazing like that is a part of ADD/ADD, I think. I fall into the same trap when given the opportunity, which, since I have a job, is not as often. But I was like this during my recovery from surgery when I had so much extra time and I hated what I become. It was restful, but very unproductive and not challenging.

historicula July 6 2011, 12:50:24 UTC

ALSO! I am free to talk right now, if you are available.

pico_the_great July 6 2011, 16:26:31 UTC

Yes. This I agree with. I know right now it'll be a summer schedule (that is, it'll need to be flexible to plans), but I think what I need to do is make these plans sufficiently in advance that I can't blow them off.

(there's been so much blowing-off of the Dalian trip that I am in almost-total confusion about what is going on now, so.)

(nods) Yeah, precisely what you say about "restful, but". Work isn't what I like doing best (obvs that's writing), but lack of work doesn't help me either, and in fact does worse than having work.

WHEE, BRAIN-CHEMISTRY

kuridee July 6 2011, 21:09:24 UTC

Okay, I know this is not a Serious Mental Thing, but that is exactly what I did in Sweden. Just there. And I ended up depressed and gaining like fifteen pounds from just Interneting all day every day, but at least you're realizing now that there's a problem and not in retrospect like I did.

So, um. Schedules! Schedules are good!