How To Rally Imaginary Friends To Help You Defeat Creative Blocks

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@indieauthors

We usually associate procrastination with unpleasant tasks, but I often put things off when good things are on the horizon. The prospect of achieving success or an improvement in my circumstances can cause me to over-analyse everything and find reasons to delay proceedings, which can hold me back in life...

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I use the co-working platform https://focusmate.com to do the boring admin and finance jobs I hate for the community project I run. Idea is you briefly chat with your focusmate, say what you want to work on, then catch up for a minute or two at the end of the session to report on progress. Can be computer work, tidying, meditation, exercise, cooking, music practice or anything. One of the great joys is the amazing diversity of people you meet and often some fascinating conversations. This week I have worked with an inspiring junior barrister from Manchester, various PhD students from US, Europe and India, a pianist in Seoul and a charity manager in Cambridge. Realise co-working online isn't everyone's cup of tea but I love it!
#productivity #coworking #procrastination #GettingThingsDone

How To Invite the Muse To Play With Blocks

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Carpe Demon

What is the best possible use of my time today, and more importantly, what can be done to avoid it?

#procrastination #productivity

#Procrastinate #Procrastinating #Procrastination #Lazy #WasteTime #WastingTime #WasteOfTime #Brain #Cartoon #Cartoons #Comic #Comics #WebComic #WebComics.

Daily life of an author -- masterclass in procrastination

1. It's 2018. Write experimental fantasy short story.
2. Consider Wattpad. Sign up, experiment with Wattpad.
3. Design cover.
4. Decide against Wattpad.
5. Write and self-publish several unrelated full length novels in other genres.

Years later ...

6. Decide to expand into a novella.
7. Complete first draft.
8. Notice (!) lack of worldbuilding.
9. Take part in online Worldbuilding course on the other side of the planet.
10. Go back to revise.
11. Realise the whole thing is execrable.
12. Decide to create a map for it in Inkarnate.
13. Create new pen name and set up in Mastodon
14. Consider creating website and buying domain. Defer due to lack of funds.
15. Write this list.

(Novella did eventually get finished, The Tyrant of Spite ebook is now available at Kobo, Kindle and other ebook outlets The map is not finished ).

Good morning.

7 April 2025

Here’s a thought: for every inaction, there seems to be an equal and opposite inaction. Take my home security system, for example. For a couple of weeks now, it has been alerting me that a break-glass sensor needs a new battery. The replacement battery? I’ve had it all along. In fact, if I glance over my left shoulder, I can see it sitting on the corner of my other desk with three of its companions. My failure to spend five minutes replacing the battery has resulted in precisely nothing happening. Well, except for the security company calling to upsell me on new equipment—a generous offer I politely declined. What they didn’t offer, of course, was to replace the battery themselves. Maybe today’s the day I’ll finally take care of it.

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”
- Bill Watterson

Blocks

My life has been dominated by writing blocks.

Sometimes I overcame them in time. Sometimes I didn't, and sometimes when I didn't there were consequences, well deserved.

Either way, those blocks have come to define me, and I hate it.

Played around a little bit with #numpy and #matplotlib in #python to create a #cyberpunk #voxelart avatar featuring a #c64 #geos disk icon. #procrastination

Je ne sais pas si vous vous souvenez de la carte des tâches journalières que j'avais créée un jour d'ennui.
Je ne pensais pas m'en servir.
Mais en fait je l'aime bien.
J'ai même trouvé de petits pions autocollants dans mon tas de stickers pour marquer mon évolution.
#procrastination #ExecutiveDysfunction #autism #autisme #adhd

J'ai plein de commandes de dessin à faire... au point que je suis figée de peur... alors je procrastine

Dessiner autre chose est un moyen pour moi de me prouver que je suis capable tout en me faisant plaisir en dessinant sans pression...

Et toi, c est quoi ta technique ️