Comments on: Getting around the block – Beating procrastination / writers block http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/ Invisible people have invisible rights Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Words don’t come easy - What to blog about? http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-865057 Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Words don’t come easy - What to blog about? Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:47:45 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-865057 [...] got other suggestions? A previous post on procrastination might be useful too. Digg it! | Reddit | Del.icio.us | Stumble Upon | [...] [...] got other suggestions? A previous post on procrastination might be useful too. Digg it! | Reddit | Del.icio.us | Stumble Upon | [...]

]]> By: cearta.ie » Blawg Review #164 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-843075 cearta.ie » Blawg Review #164 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:49:17 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-843075 [...] 16. Eumaeus, or Why are there so few Academic Bloggers? In the Odyssey, Odysseus returns home to find his home besieged, which, reunited with Telemachus, he plots to free; in Ulysses, Bloom and Stephen walk from Nighttown to a Cabman’s shelter west of the Custom House where they drink coffee and chat with a sailor, and Bloom expostulates to a prostitute on the perils of vice. (Yet again, consider Beijing, Chapter 14). It is no exaggeration to say that Ulysses has spawned an entire academic industry that is showing every sign of redoubling, but very little of it is in blogs. Yet, Crooked Timber has been continually surprised over the years about how many academics fail to take advantage of the Web as a medium for disseminating their work, and later gives sound advice to a PhD student wondering whether to embark on a blog; of course, one of the keys is to choose a good domain name, especially when they are increasingly scarce. Damien Mulley has good advice for all such bloggers on beating procrastination and writers block. [...] [...] 16. Eumaeus, or Why are there so few Academic Bloggers? In the Odyssey, Odysseus returns home to find his home besieged, which, reunited with Telemachus, he plots to free; in Ulysses, Bloom and Stephen walk from Nighttown to a Cabman’s shelter west of the Custom House where they drink coffee and chat with a sailor, and Bloom expostulates to a prostitute on the perils of vice. (Yet again, consider Beijing, Chapter 14). It is no exaggeration to say that Ulysses has spawned an entire academic industry that is showing every sign of redoubling, but very little of it is in blogs. Yet, Crooked Timber has been continually surprised over the years about how many academics fail to take advantage of the Web as a medium for disseminating their work, and later gives sound advice to a PhD student wondering whether to embark on a blog; of course, one of the keys is to choose a good domain name, especially when they are increasingly scarce. Damien Mulley has good advice for all such bloggers on beating procrastination and writers block. [...]

]]> By: linkage | things I like at David Maybury | Blog http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-832618 linkage | things I like at David Maybury | Blog Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:00:59 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-832618 [...] Writers block? Procrastination problems? Damien has the answers you [...] [...] Writers block? Procrastination problems? Damien has the answers you [...]

]]> By: Hairyfish » Blog Archive » Home Sweet Home http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-815320 Hairyfish » Blog Archive » Home Sweet Home Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:34:52 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-815320 [...] on the blogging wagon that i’ve almost certainly fallen off. Alas with some helping hands and supportive words and lots of life experience to blurb on about I should be back right on track! Man chugs 2 litres [...] [...] on the blogging wagon that i’ve almost certainly fallen off. Alas with some helping hands and supportive words and lots of life experience to blurb on about I should be back right on track! Man chugs 2 litres [...]

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-797557 Bernie Goldbach Sat, 24 May 2008 04:54:04 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-797557 Because our first year students in my Media Writing have become too dependent on writing only with a live web connection, we pass around a handheld digital dictaphone and talk about what comes to mind. After no more than 15 short contributions, we're away with a storyline. Because our first year students in my Media Writing have become too dependent on writing only with a live web connection, we pass around a handheld digital dictaphone and talk about what comes to mind. After no more than 15 short contributions, we’re away with a storyline.

]]> By: John http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-796257 John Fri, 23 May 2008 17:55:16 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-796257 I'll let you know once I have formulated an opinion on procrastination......Oh look my room needs tidying....:-p I’ll let you know once I have formulated an opinion on procrastination……Oh look my room needs tidying….:-p

]]> By: J Kennedy http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-796152 J Kennedy Fri, 23 May 2008 16:44:08 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-796152 Don't think, don't plan. Just do! Take it from an arch-procrastinator. Don’t think, don’t plan. Just do! Take it from an arch-procrastinator.

]]> By: S http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-795606 S Fri, 23 May 2008 10:29:02 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-795606 Unfortunately procrastination is a basic human condition that requires a heightened sense of self-awareness and discipline to tackle. I find what works for me is to involve another person. It's like having a gym membership, you're more likely to use it if you have a gym buddy! I, like Damien also have to get over the hurdle of breaking down the big problem into smaller pieces. Personally, I can only do this visually on a whiteboard, but some of my peers are addicted to mind mapping software. Unfortunately procrastination is a basic human condition that requires a heightened sense of self-awareness and discipline to tackle.

I find what works for me is to involve another person. It’s like having a gym membership, you’re more likely to use it if you have a gym buddy! I, like Damien also have to get over the hurdle of breaking down the big problem into smaller pieces. Personally, I can only do this visually on a whiteboard, but some of my peers are addicted to mind mapping software.

]]> By: B'dum B'dum http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-794660 B'dum B'dum Thu, 22 May 2008 23:40:22 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-794660 Good ideas but I find having really low-quality control works just as well. :D Nah, the vast majority of my blogs are just almost fully-formed ideas from earlier on in the day... that leaves the blog messy by my own admission. Quite often when I hit a wall I just leave the entire thing hanging rather than try to patch it up, then return in a weeks time and find the whole idea fresh again. Good ideas but I find having really low-quality control works just as well. :D

Nah, the vast majority of my blogs are just almost fully-formed ideas from earlier on in the day… that leaves the blog messy by my own admission.

Quite often when I hit a wall I just leave the entire thing hanging rather than try to patch it up, then return in a weeks time and find the whole idea fresh again.

]]> By: MJ http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-794541 MJ Thu, 22 May 2008 22:41:33 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/22/getting-around-the-block-beating-procrastination-writers-block/#comment-794541 You're right. The big tasks are always the hardest to start! I try to reassure people when they are trying to start writing their first business plan - just to start with the headings & page breaks. Then go and get a cuppa or something. Then go back and pop a few bullet points down under each heading. Then go away again. Then come back to it...and (hopefully!) the thing will start writing itself almost. This advice calms people down hugely! Makes it seem less daunting I think. Break. It. Down. Good man Damo :) You’re right. The big tasks are always the hardest to start! I try to reassure people when they are trying to start writing their first business plan – just to start with the headings & page breaks. Then go and get a cuppa or something. Then go back and pop a few bullet points down under each heading. Then go away again. Then come back to it…and (hopefully!) the thing will start writing itself almost. This advice calms people down hugely! Makes it seem less daunting I think. Break. It. Down. Good man Damo :)

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