1. You are planning a project. Daydreaming often. Maybe writing sketches, outlines, backgrounds, whatever you want to call it. In that period of expectancy you know so well. Don't try to fit every idle profundity you stumble across into your framework. Let some things play out on their own, no matter how tempted you are to work them somehow into your design. Like taking a break from your obsessions by momentarily replacing them.

2. Don't feel guilty about not writing. It doesn't help you write more, quite the opposite. So why do it? You feel guilty about not writing, then feel too embarrassed to write. Let it go. So if you stop working on something and a year passes, twenty years, a billion, so what? Does your obsession with finishing, whatever that means, help you to finish?

3. And no, that isn't justification for laziness. If you find yourself justifying laziness then try to remember that laziness itself is your actual problem. Sloth is slinky like that, a master of misdirection.

Date: 2011-12-20 07:12 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] fredherman
Well, if you let a billion years pass, that does rather preclude the likelihood of finishing anything at all.

Date: 2011-12-24 03:49 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] fredherman
Another fair point.

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