For all the procrastinators, ditherers, and dawdlers.

OMG this is just brilliant!! Thanks for sharing. Definitely hits home..

I'll read it tomorrow....

Omg. Brilliant is right!

I can't believe there's not a photo of me beside the piece. I could be its poster child...

I stopped reading this about halfway through to check my email, look at the short story currently under construction to make sure it didn't write itself overnight, and to write this post. I'm hopeless.

Ummm....what post?

It being Sunday, I was intending to procrastinate today, but I decided that, tomorrow being Monday, and a holiday, I would put it off.

caw

"The Dark Playground"

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who went there!

Interesting read so far—I spend too much time in The Dark Playground myself.

For anyone lacking regular visits from 'The Panic Monster', there's an App called 'Write or Die' which basically creates a sense of urgency as you write. You can choose various consequences for not achieving your word-count goal, from alarms ringing to your work being deleted!!

There's an encouragement mode which rewards you with motivational music/sounds/images. It can be used online for free or the full version can be downloaded with all the options!!

http://writeordie.com/

It's working for me! I need to feed my Panic Monster to get out of this rut I'm in!! I get so distracted, I've done everything mentioned in that article, from string theory documentaries to watching interviews with Bieber's dad. And videos of pimples being popped. Don't ask....

It's an eternal struggle.

Everyone I have shared that link with has said the same thing. Almost exactly.

OMG HE SO NAILED IT.

ahyup.

Paramite Pie said:

For anyone lacking regular visits from 'The Panic Monster', there's an App called 'Write or Die' which basically creates a sense of urgency as you write. You can choose various consequences for not achieving your word-count goal, from alarms ringing to your work being deleted!!

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Sadly, this does not work for me because my procrastination kicks in before I can even get to Write or Die. Once I'm writing, I have no issues with staying on it and don't need the added push of the stress of losing my words due to a function of the program.

This has been a lifelong ailment of mine, but now that I know what's wrong with me, I should be a lot closer to finding a cure. I would read, How to Beat Procrastination, but that would mean putting off work even longer than I already have.

From the link said:

* A lot of you are probably reading this article while in the Dark Playground.

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... Are they watching me?

Follow the yellow brick road, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road...

That was spot on. Great visualizations.
It's nice that it's from someone who is not looking at you from the other side of the fence - no ding dong the Monkey is dead.
Though one could still sing that song about the bricks...

I've been spending a lot of time in the Dark Playground lately. The lines for the rides are short, and I can't seem to stay off them.

Erm... I'm in the Dark Playground right now... I'm at work, clearly not working. *shifty*

Terrific. Terrifyingly accurate.

That Primate Awards link...time-sucky-er than the Procrastination post itself. I made sure to pass it around. Especially to other procrastinators I know.

"This post was posted late, not only because it took me 2,000 years to do, but also because I decided that Monday night was an urgent time to open Google Earth, hover a few hundred feet above the southern tip of India, and scroll all the way up India to the top of the country, to “get a better feel for India.” I have problems."

Yeah, that part was totally me. Most of what I've learned post-college I've learned when I should be doing something else.

I'm actually pretty good at not procrastinating on my book, assuming I'm not in the midst of an episode of serious writer-self-loathing, but the writing I currently get paid for... um, yeah. I have major issues there, ever since I've been working from home. Sometimes it's like I can't even think for three seconds about something I have to get done before I'm bouncing off to check my email and so forth.

Thank you so much for posting this.

It's nice to now I'm not alone.

So funny, so accurate. Thanks for posting!

What's funny about this is that I'm not a procrastinator...all of the time. Sure, I'll get the instances where I'm not feeling confident about something and then I'll spend some time dawdling, and that part of the article definitely made a lot of sense. But usually, when I know what I need to do, I'm pretty good about figuring out the how and finding the most efficient way to achieve it.

But what really gets me are the instances where I need to do something but have no idea where to even get started...and then sometimes, never do. Have a concrete list of goals someone else has given me? Sure, we're good to go. Trying to figure out how to do something I've never done before and no one I know can offer advice about? That's when I end up just spinning my wheels for a while until something hits me that gives me a direction.

OMG. It's so accurate! Thanks for posting this!! Made me laugh out loud so many times too.

Didn't make me laugh--too depressingly accurate. Really good. The Dark Playground--good to have a name for it. I've got the rides bookmarked!