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Keep written goals, and revise them daily. (Production goals, not sales goals, which you can't control.) Rewriting them every day helps you focus on each one and think about what you can do at the moment to further it along.
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Set a timer for a short period of time (15 minutes or so) and stay at the keyboard--no matter what--until it dings. Then do it again. Only allow yourself to get up after the timer dings, and always set the timer again if you stay at the keyboard. This will hold you in place long enough for the first impulse toward work-avoidance to pass, and you'll often discover yourself eager to keep going when your time's up.
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Pay yourself an hourly wage for time worked, and don't allow yourself leisure activities (movies, dinner out, etc.) unless you can pay for it with this writing money.
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Set a quota of hours worked per day/week. The same applies here as with page quotas. Make it realistic.
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writers want to write (or want to have written), but all too often we find ourselves doing anything else but
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try the ones that seem interesting, and remember that some of them won't work for you at all.
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pages written per day
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hourly wage for time worked
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Have someone else pay you for writing.
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Write to music.
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Only allow yourself to get up after the timer dings
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if it's not on the schedule, don't do it. Schedule it tomorrow.
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Form a support/nagging network
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Graph your hours and/or pages
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Write all your good ideas as quickly as you can after you get them.
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Do your research while you're outlining, so by the time you start writing the actual story, you're already living in that world.
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don't look back until you're done.
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Keep written goals, and revise them daily.
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doesn't engage the language center of your brain
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play them outside your writing time
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allow yourself to read only one email message per paragraph written.
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Reward yourself for success. Choose the reward so you'll work hard to earn it.
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Don't think; just write. Keep the writing and editing processes separate.
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stop editing during your creative time.
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Write an hour for every hour you read.
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Start your writing day with a long walk in pleasant surroundings, or gardening, or doing something else that wakes you up and gets your mind working.
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Days when you tried to write but failed don't count as days off.
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don't use your work time for personal stuff
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jansenma2000great ideas to stay motivated with writing
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Matt Jansengreat ideas to stay motivated with writing
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Lucid ScreamerMotivate yourself to write.
lifehacks writing productivity advice fiction techniques tips inspiration resources novels procrastination
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Janet McKnightStrategies to beat writer's block, but mostly applicable to general procrastination.
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ken .Some nice ideas here. Nice subtlety in opening line about most writers want to write - or to have written :) double bonus scary points for "Don't outline. Don't plan ahead at all. Feel the lure of the blank page", niiiiice
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zenmoon starrmix and match or just choose one - like making comments every day on Furl.net ;-)
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