Distraction

[greenconverses]

I've discovered why I'm such a bad updater.

It's not because I get writer's block or because I'm too busy or because I don't have access to a computer all the time. 

It's because I have the attention span of a gerbil and I get distracted too easily. 

Take right now, for instance. I could be finishing up Part Two of The Incident in the Library or getting some work done on Chapter 21 of Nothing on Earth. Instead, I'm writing on livejournal about how I get distracted too easily and I'm surfing FFnet for Danny Phantom fan fics to read. I could've had Part Two finished last week if I really tried hard - instead I stayed up until two in the morning nearly every night, surfing YouTube for episodes of old television shows I liked or - once again - reading fan fiction. 

I get distracted far too easily. And then, when I get distracted, I lose my motivation and nothing happens. I'm wasting my time when I could be doing something important or improving my writing. 

I could've had three chapters of Nothing on Earth done this summer - I'm not that terrifically busy that I can't find time to write a page each day. But, once again, it all comes back to me being distracted so very easily.

I need to get motivated - I want to have Nothing on Earth finished by the time I graduate so I can work on the sequel, but that won't happen if I'm reading DP fan fic until 5:30 in the morning every night. 

And to do that, I think I need to give my dad his laptop back. Having that in my room is too much temptation at once. I have a computer in my room, but it's from the Stone Age (i.e, 1998, I think) and the only internet it has is dial-up, so I can't go on for too long without wanting to kill myself from the wait. My computer also doesn't have Solitaire on it. That game has become the bane of my existance. I play it every day for about an hour and it's not even fun any more - it's an addiction. 

For the sake of my fan fic, I must part with this beloved laptop. I never liked typing fan fic up on it anyway - the keyboard doesn't click the way I like it.


So now I've got one distraction out of the way. Now I need to find out some way to get rid of my DP obsession before it's too late and I end up with twenty some pages of useless scenes for a fan fiction, just like I did with PotC. 

Good thing I didn't get the urge to start writing PotC fan fic again after I saw the movie. It pretty much crushed all my fan girly dreams anyway.



***another side note about getting distracted: I left in the middle of typing this and didn't return until about twenty minutes later. I was only supposed to be gone for like a minute - my mother and my sister were fighting about the artist of a song on the radio and I had to tell them who it was. Then, I got hungry and ate, and then I played around with my new phone before I remember I had left the laptop on and I needed to finish my entry.


*sigh*