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Thu, Aug 23 12:00 AM

Every day is fight day

 

Yesterday I realized (once more) that I cannot take for granted any improvement of the day before to secure that the next day will be fantastic. I must do the work every single time. Yesterday, I started fine until I hit a wall in my writing. Then, instead of doing the right thing (keep on writing, keep on shaping it) I took the easy road of getting rid of the symptom without going to the cause (my writing) and started surfing the net. That was an empty activity that, similar to other vices and addictions, left me empty, guilty, anxious and with the bitterness of a wasted day.

The effect of that is very much like a hangover, it's the effect of having cheated myself. 

 

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Fight Day

A problem with the internet (among its many good uses) is how available it is for an easy escape.  It's so tempting just to disengage from hard work and (if you are one a computer) you are just one click away.  I find that it's not so much the content of the web that is necessarily the attraction, but just the feeling you get where you don't really have to think.  


I've noticed also that, while it feels good, the feeling you get afterwards is just as you describe, and seems almost proportional in how long it lasts to how long you've been surfing.  It feels like a hangover.

I read an article a while ago where someone suggested disconnecting the net or disabling it, simplifying your computer, and basically using it like a word processor.  If you don't need the net all the time, you can temporarily disable it through a program called Software Timelock, which is freeware.  Perhaps you could employ this just during your writing time.  Good luck!