Pomodoro Technique

Read about it here. Try it and see if it helps you. Works for me. Keep it simple.

Wrong How

What also helps is realizing that it's not that "someone is wrong on the Internet," it's that most of the time they're not even wrong. After remembering that, somehow it's easier to just get back to your work, which is the right response anyways to whatever it was that riled you up in the first place.

Focus Book

For a couple years now, I've been using little mini-comic sized books, made from scrap paper from the copy shop, folded and stapled, to keep focused each day on the day's work.  Or to free-write and warm up. This is the latest one, just finished today. I haven't been numbering them, which is unusual for me!  I also use the same format to write and take notes for the bigger projects. Now you know, right? What's the lesson here? I don't know. For me, they're less intimidating and overwhelming than sk.books or moleskines, and cheaper, and you get to the end faster. Also, they're conveniently proportional to the proportions of the comics pages I draw. Whatever works.

Souther on Procrastination

Souther on procrastination. 

"...after years of having a love/hate relationship with deadlines and structure, reading books on procrastination and productivity, and coming up with new gimmicks and tricks to get myself organized and on a schedule, I’ve learned there are some things you can change about yourself and some things you can’t.  for the ones you can’t, you just have to learn to work around them or else embrace them and make them work for you."

GTD was very important for me, but I've come to see it isn't exactly designed for creative work.  Here are some useful correctives.

New Construction #3 - 1