A little success can be almost as dangerous as none.
Why do I say that? Because I’ve now had a little success as a writer, and there are times when the last thing I want to do is write.
Sure, once I fire up the word processor, that goes away. The trick is to be more interested in firing up Focus Writer 1.3.5.1 and getting to work, than I am in, say, seeing what comes up when I type laser spine institute into Google.
Of course, such distractions can sometimes compliment the writing task. For example, when I wrote SHADA, one night I got bored and not that motivated and I somehow got it into my head to find out what they called the sort of scientists who studied beetles.
I found the term and that led me to William Kirby’s Wikipedia entry and before you know it, I had my head filled with that stuff. So I integrated what I’d learned into making Willow a science nerd who’d like to speak to William Kirby, a man who died long, long ago.
But more often than not, distractions are no more than that: distractions. What more can I come up with to put off clicking on that handy word processor icon?
There’s no easy answer to that. A person just has to ride out such ennui, usually by clicking on the word processor icon and getting to work. There’s not much else that works.
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