Someone Punish Me

Akuma · Mar 21, 2006

Lately, I haven't written.
Let's just say I've been a little busy (playing the addictive Final Fantasy XI

) and I've seriously neglected my story...

Someone whip me back into shape! Temptation has never been so wicked...

Sage · Mar 21, 2006

Give yourself the reward of playing the game for writing for a certain length of time. If you don't write enough that day, you can't play. How's that?

MattW · Mar 21, 2006

I'm in no position to cast any stones.

I've taken a new and more demanding job, been planning a wedding on another continent, and been trying to exercise enough to fit my suit at said wedding.

Writing has really suffered for it.

scribbler1382 · Mar 21, 2006

Sage said:
Give yourself the reward of playing the game for writing for a certain length of time. If you don't write enough that day, you can't play. How's that?

What Sage said. And remember, you don't FIND time to write, you MAKE it. And no one is saying you have to write. Maybe down deep you're just a normal person instead of <scary music> one of us. Some would consider that a blessing.

But the fact you're concerned about it makes me think the opposite. Someone (maybe a real someone and not just one of the chaps in my noggin) once said "writers write when the fear of NOT writing gets too great". I think there's a lot to that.

ChaosTitan · Mar 21, 2006

Oh come on, someone had to pull out the icon. :tongue

LightShadow · Mar 21, 2006

let me pull the log out of my eye before I complain about the splinter in yours...

banjo · Mar 21, 2006

Akuma said:
Lately, I haven't written.
Let's just say I've been a little busy (playing the addictive Final Fantasy XI ) and I've seriously neglected my story...

Someone whip me back into shape! Temptation has never been so wicked...

For a moment I thought this was erotica--some new cross genre erotic-novella or something.

Carry on.

DamaNegra · Mar 21, 2006

Since I have been writing this past week I can tell you off

No, seriously, Sage gave you great advice. Just don't go: "Oh, it can't hurt to play 5 minutes before I write. You know, just to clear my mind and get the inspiration I need." because you know those five minutes will turn into three hours

LightShadow · Mar 21, 2006

Sometimes it takes time to get into the groove, and then when you get there, you try to turn it off so that you can finally go to bed.

alaskamatt17 · Mar 22, 2006

I just wrote a 10,000 word story in two days! Get to work! Yarr! I've been reading too much Tennessee Williams! The exclamation marks are taking over!

aadams73 · Mar 22, 2006

Look at it this way: if you don't buckle down and write, you'll never be published.

Good motivator, isn't it?

stace001 · Mar 22, 2006

banjo said:
For a moment I thought this was erotica--some new cross genre erotic-novella or something.

Carry on.

Forbidden Snowflake · Mar 22, 2006

I don't want to punish you, just ask you if FFXI is any good and if I shall go and buy it?

Pencilone · Mar 22, 2006

I need a gook kick, too.

Yesterday I discovered a little trick that works for me. First I think hard of the need to tidy up my children's toys (which I really hate to do, but it needs to be done). Then I think that I could postpone that only if I write a little. So I ended up writing and not tiding up.

Well, one cannot have everything, but at least I wrote something for the day.

Nexusman · Mar 22, 2006

Hmm... when I was stuck on a Gamecube game and couldn't (actually, wouldn't) make time to write for it, I just unplugged the controllers and stashed them in my closet. Having to dig through last week's laundry to play a game made writing a better alternative (and doing the laundry, for that matter.)

-Nick

jackie106 · Mar 22, 2006

Sorry, but I don't punish anyone until the third date.

Bufty · Mar 22, 2006

Is this just you looking for an excuse to chicken out of playing FFX1? Concentrate, Akuma :hooray:

- you can beat those guys!

Yeshanu · Mar 22, 2006

Okay, Akuma. Hand over the game. I'll play. You write.

Vuligora · Mar 22, 2006

Take that Playstation or whatever and throw it out the window. Have someone run over it with a car and smash it into a thousand pieces! Muhahaha! Then, burn all of your games! Watch them burn, burn , burn! Feel your brain scream

-Brain: "No, don't listen to them. Don't do it. All my hard work, pressing buttons to make imaginary characters chop up pixel images. Level thirty four! My life was also most complete."
-You: "Shut up Brain. Must write. No must play...
-Brain: "That's it..."
-You "Super cool game..."
-Brain "Yes, go to the dark side. Play forever, and ever. Muhahaha!"
-You "No, must defeat evil brain..."

You then proceed to eat a Bannana Slurpee from the 7-Eleven, one because it is cold, and two because Bannana is the best flavor and anyone who disagrees will be executed for blasphamy! Brainfreeze! (The power of Bold, Italics, and Underline all at once!)

-Brain: "Okay, Mercy! You don't have to play the game! You don't have to play the game. Ahhhhhh!
-You: "Too late to stop slurping now. The bannana flavor has sucked me in!"

After having this battle with yourself and destroying all your senseless mind destroying and life sucker upper devices, pay a small evil child to lock you in your room with nothing but a computer and refuse to let you eat until you've written a hundred pages in 12 font! And you can't use the, paste-the-same stuff-over-and-over again trick because this little kid actually reads over everything and it must be good work...or you can starve for all he cares. After all, you paid him five bucks.

Or...you could do what they said. However, I doubt it would be less productive.

Okay, I had wayyyy tooo much fun writing that and I have so much English Homework!

BuffStuff · Mar 22, 2006

I never understood the facination with online rpgs, although Final Fantasy 7 was one of the best games I've ever played. I never got into 11. I've had it for years now (the pc version) and never played it beyond a few times. I'd rather oil my baseball glove. To get my bippy (shudders at the word) writing, I try to do it the very 1st thing that I do in the day. With me, personally, if I set it aside, it'll never get done. I have hung inspirational writing quotes on the walls of my room (Heinlein's 5 rules to successful writing, etc) to constantly remind myself that I need to put in the obligatory 3 hours per day. Even, at times now, I feel it should somehow, if humanly possible, be bumped up to 6.

BuffStuff · Mar 22, 2006

In fact, tape an index card to the top of your PS2, with a particularly moving quote concerning writing. Every time you go to turn it on, you'll have the quote staring you in the face.

Or even, "write for 30 seconds, before you play me" (no one will write fot only 30 seconds, and however much time you put into it before you play your game (whether 5 minutes or 20) will be time well spent.

LightShadow · Mar 22, 2006

okay, okay, enough procrastination. Back on your heads!

Elincoln · Mar 23, 2006

From one FF nut (though not FFXI. I'm not into online RPGs) to another, I sympathize with you.

Sage's idea is really the best way, but also you might want to schedule that reward in. For example: say for every X amount of time you spend writing, you get to play Y amount of time after 10p.m. (or when you can usually have time to play.)

Also if you got a few close online buddies, ask them to pester you if you don't meet your quota. And if that doesn't work, tell them to kill your character (can that happen in FFXI?). Harsh, but consider it a life lesson.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to finish my Kingdom Hearts game.

Avalon · Mar 23, 2006

Onlin FFXI, feh! FFXII is due out this summer-ish!

On the other hand, to quote Orson Scott Card, "The discipline has to come from within. Don't wait for a muse to strike and force you to your typewriter. Such events are rare -- in my experience, muses tend to strike those who are at the keyboard typing their brains out, not those who are playing video games in the basement."

You're not going to find your motivation here, be it praise or punishment.

loquax · Mar 23, 2006

Try writing some ff fanfic to get you back in the swing. Homoerotic love stories are the most popular (squall on cloud, tifa on quistis, &c.)

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