Rewarding Yourself! #BeatTheBlock
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I know it's a common incentive, if you do well, you're rewarded. This happened at school in the form of stickers, and if you didn't do well, then you were given detention and what they liked to call Consequences, if you got three in one lesson you missed your break, if you got four, then you missed your lunch.
Deviating slightly to punishment, which is not the purpose of this post. I'm here to say that you must reward yourself. I sometimes complain to myself, in fact, I always complain to myself, it's probably part of the reason why I'm slowly going insane! And again, digressing!
I reward myself if I have a healthy word count that day, or if I edit a chapter, or write chapter, I don't know--sometimes I like to just reward myself because I'm that awesome.
Even though those cakes look plastic, I think you can get what I'm trying to say. Treat yourself to something that you don't normally do, like eating chocolate, I haven't had chocolate for ages, because it gives me the worst headaches. So instead, I reward myself with stationary, pens, pencils, books etc. it might be a little dorkish to admit but buying those kind of things make me happy and I love it when I get some paper.
I think everyone needs to treat themselves, but not something really expensive if you're planning on giving to yourself each chapter you write. I normally do things like, "you're not eating until you finish doing this section" of course it works, but I wouldn't tell other people to do it, it's just my motivation.
I've started rewarding myself with internet, and I know that this will be something EVERYONE can take. If you write 1,000 words, or however many words you've planned, then give yourself a 15/30 minute Facebook, Twitter, Blogger usage and set an alarm! I often get sidetracked by the internet, so it's an amazing compromise, if you have the willpower that is, if not, then unplug the internet, turn it off, stop your laptop from receiving wireless signals. You will always feel better if you're working towards something, and yes, that might be a novel, a short story, the end of a chapter, and although you love writing, you must also love something else, just use that as your reward.
~Joseph Eastwood
Deviating slightly to punishment, which is not the purpose of this post. I'm here to say that you must reward yourself. I sometimes complain to myself, in fact, I always complain to myself, it's probably part of the reason why I'm slowly going insane! And again, digressing!
I reward myself if I have a healthy word count that day, or if I edit a chapter, or write chapter, I don't know--sometimes I like to just reward myself because I'm that awesome.
Even though those cakes look plastic, I think you can get what I'm trying to say. Treat yourself to something that you don't normally do, like eating chocolate, I haven't had chocolate for ages, because it gives me the worst headaches. So instead, I reward myself with stationary, pens, pencils, books etc. it might be a little dorkish to admit but buying those kind of things make me happy and I love it when I get some paper.I think everyone needs to treat themselves, but not something really expensive if you're planning on giving to yourself each chapter you write. I normally do things like, "you're not eating until you finish doing this section" of course it works, but I wouldn't tell other people to do it, it's just my motivation.
I've started rewarding myself with internet, and I know that this will be something EVERYONE can take. If you write 1,000 words, or however many words you've planned, then give yourself a 15/30 minute Facebook, Twitter, Blogger usage and set an alarm! I often get sidetracked by the internet, so it's an amazing compromise, if you have the willpower that is, if not, then unplug the internet, turn it off, stop your laptop from receiving wireless signals. You will always feel better if you're working towards something, and yes, that might be a novel, a short story, the end of a chapter, and although you love writing, you must also love something else, just use that as your reward.
~Joseph Eastwood
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