John Scalzi Tries to Deal with His Internet Addiction

I am betting that the internet will pwn him quickly. Just saying.



John Scalzi:




That One Small Detail I Alluded To In the Previous Post: Last year about this time I mentioned that my plan for the year was to devote my mornings to writing pay copy, which meant less time doing things on the Internet before noon. It was a good idea, and in a general sense I did much of my non-net writing during that time. But I also ended up doing a fair amount of backsliding. Basically what I’ve found is that if I pop up the Internet first thing in the morning, just to check e-mail, etc, I have a pretty good chance of then not getting to actual work until much later in the day, at a point when I am not as energized for it, and therefore do commensurately less of it.



So this year I’m going to get serious about things, time-wise.... I will not be online at all before noon, or before 2,000 words of pay copy, whichever comes first. Because now that I am old, morning is my best creative time, and because self-knowledge tells me that I allow myself to get distracted if I don’t set down an actual rule for myself. Now I have....



This goes in effect starting tomorrow. Wheee! Wish me luck.






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