The End of Productivity

I've noticed one thing between writers, it's so easy to find something that distracts you, some vice or another. It's actually quite easy to become the victim of procrastination, you sit down at your computer, open up Microsoft Word or sit with pen in hand at your desk, whichever, and then there's something, a book, a bottle cap, an untidy bedroom, a television, a computer, maybe an alien invasion or perhaps, there's zombies trying to tear down your door. First thing to note if you want to keep on writing is that zombies aren't real, they're a myth and if aliens were really invading, they could probably vaporize your house so escape is futile, it's all in your head, it might make an interesting plot - the procrastinated writer who had to fight off a zombie alien invasion with the power of voodoo (who do? You do? Do what? Remind me of the babe!). See how easy it is? In this very simple blog post I have gone completely off topic.

My Scholar

As a game geek, my distraction is obvious, video games. On Friday three things happened: I bought Pokemon: White and Fable III and Final Fantasy XI's servers went back online. There's no guessing what I've not been doing, writing. My Level 70 Scholar needed to face Professor Gunther Schultz II so he could level past 70, alas, my old professor wiped the floor with me, which could have been evaded if I bothered to pay 100,000gil for a Dispel spell, which would have erased his Shell III (resists magic attack) and my magic would have hit him twice as hard! Then of course, I've got to lead the resistance in Fable III and defeat my first gym leader in Pokemon. Hey, if I wasn't living in reality that would be a somewhat celebratory weekend - sure I lost a fight, but hey! I saved a village from starvation, so eat on that Bono!


But what's the answer? you plan to do something, but your body decides to go against it? Simple, kill your distraction, take a sword, a gun your bare bands, stab it, shoot it, strangle it, whatever...that doesn't mean if your kids or wife are a distraction you murder them, I am speaking more figuratively here. Move away from them, move them away from your working space, keep your working space clean, untidiness IS a distraction, if worst comes to worst, sit down in the library, it's a surprisingly productive place. Saying that, with access to the Internet, I am still capable of accessing blogger.com and writing this blog post instead of getting on with any actual writing. But hey, it's better than defeating yet ANOTHER Shadowlord (seriously why do so many RPGs have them?)