I have a day where I take a Fukitol and just.... do nothing. After a few days of this, I get angry with myself to the point of wanting to do something, anything.
I then pick something manageable, something I can't fuck up, that still requires some creative work in as little time as possible. (This is usually cheesecake. I have perfected the easiest recipe, which is useful only if you can take sugar, chocolate and dairy products). Once that's out of my system, then my brain's calmed down enough to just focus on one thing.
The other thing though, is that sometimes this process can take a long time to cycle through for me, depending on what's happening in my life =/ Juggling several deadlines at once seems to work, since it gives my brain the illusion that I'm being properly distracted, and so I focus a bit more on tasks at hand (and consider the writing to be a specific task). So once I've given my brain what it thinks it wants, and satisfied those needs, then I figure out how to focus on what I want.
Doesn't always work tho. Right now I have some major writer's block, even for run-of-the-mill things like emails and con reports, so I'm just embroiled in sewing instead =/
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:50 am (UTC)I then pick something manageable, something I can't fuck up, that still requires some creative work in as little time as possible. (This is usually cheesecake. I have perfected the easiest recipe, which is useful only if you can take sugar, chocolate and dairy products). Once that's out of my system, then my brain's calmed down enough to just focus on one thing.
The other thing though, is that sometimes this process can take a long time to cycle through for me, depending on what's happening in my life =/ Juggling several deadlines at once seems to work, since it gives my brain the illusion that I'm being properly distracted, and so I focus a bit more on tasks at hand (and consider the writing to be a specific task). So once I've given my brain what it thinks it wants, and satisfied those needs, then I figure out how to focus on what I want.
Doesn't always work tho. Right now I have some major writer's block, even for run-of-the-mill things like emails and con reports, so I'm just embroiled in sewing instead =/