What motivates you kids?

[NakedAge]

I'm dieing to know.

I've been sitting here, for 12 F**KING HOURS!!! trying to get my assignment done, and just, nothing came to me. ... For 12 HOURS!!!! Finally it's started (at 1am in the morning!) and I'm finally able to get started.

I feel so, mentally impotent. I need like, creative viagra or something.


What do you guys do to snap you into shape?

[The Buddy Love Show]

concentrating on the task at hand and not goofing off by posting on messageboards usually works for me

[NakedAge]

Yeah but come on. This is me we're talking about. I have an attention span the size of a butterflys foreskin. Dont get me wrong, I've done most of it.

I have a 3 page script left to write now. Double spacing and double lined and shit means, well, really 1 and a half pages not even. I'm taking a food break. (Vanilla slice n apple juice.) But earlier today, I was racking my brains trying to get started and for easily 8 hours, I just couldn't do it. I was ejaculating mental blanks. As soon as the sun went down, it was allllllll gravy baby

[Lady_of_da_House]

free writing...just write down the positives and the negatives...about the subject..the past the present the future about the subject..even write why its not interesting to youu...how would it make you interested...how it effects you directly or indirectly...the cause and effects...its a beginning...

[djboxx]

I usually just stop thinking about it, find something else to do and let the creative things filter into this wretched thing i call a brain:smashfreakB:

[Lady_of_da_House]

I usually just stop thinking about it, find something else to do and let the creative things filter into this wretched thing i call a brain:smashfreakB: True that...I tend to do the same when I'm troubleshooting..and I'm stuck...just walk away from it for awhile...and let it simmer on the back burner...lol

[NakedAge]

It's all good I'm sorted now. I had to write like, a synopsis for a play, and 3 pages of sample script. (not much at all), but it really killed me. I went over the page limits he sett and shit. He's gonna hate me for it and tell me all shit like "you gotta stick to word limits" and all that jazz but, I couldn't give a fuck.


I was considering red bull or something but nah man, too late. I havent had red bull in years.

[Lady_of_da_House]

It's all good I'm sorted now. I had to write like, a synopsis for a play, and 3 pages of sample script. (not much at all), but it really killed me. I went over the page limits he sett and shit. He's gonna hate me for it and tell me all shit like "you gotta stick to word limits" and all that jazz but, I couldn't give a fuck.


I was considering red bull or something but nah man, too late. I havent had red bull in years.

Heey...its your synopsis and your sample script..so it will have your "'Name on it" and there's a limit for a purpose..so get back to work and edit edit edit...its part of the whole writing scene...and you should give a fuck..you're probably just tired out...soo..give it a rest and come back...:)

[NakedAge]

it reads good as is. I dont have enough hours in the day to take this career path seriously. Its just a bit of fun and shit. Just I wanna get my certificate before I leave the land. He always gives me decent comments regardless if I go over so, it doesn't matter. Its basically "Pay us and we'll pass you even if it's rubbish" kinda crap.

This doesn't go to anyone. I have a stage actor friend leaving for London, actually he left like, now! Fuck I was sposed to email it to him before he LEFT!!! Ah well, he'll get it when he's there if not, stiff shit. But he wants to show it around the theatre scene. Thing is I'm not big on theatre scene.

I can write it and write it well, because when I Dj its very similar. I time everything, lights and music and effects and everything, and so I incorporate ALL of that into it, even my manual jobs as a building labourer, apprentice cabinet maker and all that crap now I put into like, gaging how setts will be built. All the fixing of club systems and crap comes into setting up sounds and lights, so, when it comes to planning entertainment I'm a bit of a 1 man tank as far as, I know exactly how it has to be. But this, this is just to shut up an old man who gets paid to tell me I'm a new aged literature genius, this won't get shown to anyone important and if it does they'll laugh it away.

[Lady_of_da_House]

Well it sounds like you're just kicking it and having funn with it....good to hear guy....:thumbsup:

[djmac81]

Go lay down for a while...After you relax usually your mind still is working..and you come up with some pretty interesting stuff! Only problem is not getting to comfortable and dozing off:sleep:

[BrazenMuse]

I walk away for a while...the brain still continues working...I also might get some tea and just sit for a bit with that...OR simply sit zazen (meditation) for a half hour.

[DaveR]

... What do you guys do to snap you into shape?
Is it done, or is not done?

If it's Done - Congrats, you did it
If it's Not Done - stop praising yourself on how good you are, citing your 'effort' and/or making excuses for why it's not done

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[BrazenMuse]

Is it always purely procrastination? Sometimes, after sitting utterly still and working for hours, I'm finally distracted or I've run into something intractable in my present state. Usually it's because of fatigue...not always physical fatigue. The brain doesn't wanna switch gears or do whatever I need it to do. So, I stop for a bit. I know my subconscious is still wrestling with whatever I'd been working on, but I needed a break. It's like working on music...sometimes you need to stop and freshen your ears a bit...everything sounds good, looks good and you aren't really there anymore.

Maybe I'm an odd bird of sorts, but when I focus, I focus. I will sit and work for nearly unbroken stretches...where I just break to go to the bathroom and have anything I might want to drink or nibble in arm's reach. Serious writing, for me, is impossible in tiny chunks...I can't write a half hour then stop then pick it back up. Same thing is true of grading.

This kind of focus tends to scare or piss off people who don't do what I do. They call, I don't answer. If they are in the house, they find my door is locked. I don't care. The deadline is the deadline and the work needs to get done.

But is stopping for a few to give the brain a break really the same as procrastinating?

[NakedAge]

The creativity of it is no dramas at all. Ideas come to me like air. Just, getting the motivation to actually write them out, do the formal lay out, spell check, double space, all that shit just really distracts me from doing it.

It's done. Its 11:46am here, I finished the assignment at about 2am this morning. I started at about 12pm yesterday, but, I just couldn't bring myself to type the first word. I had my family buzzing around me and shit and, I just couldn't do it. As soon as it got dark, and the house went quiet and they all went to bed, BANG! I started, and it was done and over in like, just over an hour.

I just need that kick in the ass to say "Start it now dickhead, stop putting it off"


Brazen, Im the same, also with production though. I can't make a song in say 3 days. When I start, I have to finish then and there and so I need to allow big stretches of time where I say "Ok on this date, at this time, I'm going to sit down and make a song" and then the lead up until then, all the ideas will come flooding and I'll get excited about them and get them down and make them, or if I got a day off I'll say "Fuck it I'm making a song". But when it's say, a song for someone else, I can stop and start, because I know what has to be done for remixes etc. When its just a NakedAge production, I can't stop and start.

[Bill Blake]

It's all good I'm sorted now. I had to write like, a synopsis for a play, and 3 pages of sample script. (not much at all), but it really killed me. I went over the page limits he sett and shit. He's gonna hate me for it and tell me all shit like "you gotta stick to word limits" and all that jazz but, I couldn't give a fuck.


I was considering red bull or something but nah man, too late. I havent had red bull in years.

You should write a play about that girl's pussy you didn't get...

[NakedAge]

yeah or I could write one about yours. What a tragedy that would be.

[Bill Blake]

yeah or I could write one about yours. What a tragedy that would be.

Too much pussy?

[NakedAge]

hehe pussy overload. It can be about a guy who gets so much pussy he becomes one, and then, after scoring some lesbian styled loving, he is finally devoured by his passion for pussy by a monstrous vagina that has teeth. It has vaginal-dentata and it eats him.

[Bill Blake]

hehe pussy overload. It can be about a guy who gets so much pussy he becomes one, and then, after scoring some lesbian styled loving, he is finally devoured by his passion for pussy by a monstrous vagina that has teeth. It has vaginal-dentata and it eats him.

Sounds like more than what you know about...stick with what you do...

[NakedAge]

I'll call it.. ATTACK OF THE FLAP FIEND! :D

[shasha]

Some of the best creative work is done under pressure ! Or do some cleaning and then creative flow will open.


Works for me.