Your brain is fried, your mind is tired, and no matter how long you stare at the blank Word document nothing comes to mind. You can't do it. You're tapped out.
You can do one of two things in a situation like this. The first is to sit there with grim determination, gritting your teeth and trying to force your brain to do what you need it to do. This method has iffy results in my experience; more often than not I wind up sitting there for hours until my inner thoughts become silent screams of frustration. I get tense, I get sick, I go a little nuts thinking about all the work I have to do and how my life's purpose has been reduced to sitting in front of a computer trying to write something that just doesn't want to be written.
I imagine none of this is particularly good for your health.
The second option is procrastination.
Play a game. I find puzzle games in particular to be the most useful. There's this one I play on addictinggames called 3-D puzzle something or other and it calms me down every time. Organizes my thoughts. It's pretty great.
Talk to someone. Vid chat, over aim, texting. I guess you can make a phone call if you absolutely have to. If you're lucky that person will be willing to spend four to five hours on complete nonsense with you, but it will be quality nonsense and you'll wake up in the morning and crank out another 3,000 words for that novel project you've been working on all semester (Thanks, Rachel!)
And when you need just a little break, write a blog post. Write a blog post on procrastination. Get all meta on that shit.
And then get back to work.
I thoroughly enjoyed our vidchat session. We worked a lot of stuff out, nonsensically. But hey, progress.
ReplyDeleteAND we created a Master List for all the Dread Characters (at least all the ones that we could find).
Yes! Never let anyone say we were totally unproductive!
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