How do I fight the powerful demon named Procrastination?

[PBJ_Time]

Seriously, I keep promising myself to write 5 more chapters in my backlog, but I end up watching the Ice Age trilogy in one sitting instead. Please help me fight this demon. I'll do anything.

 

[HappyHamburglar101]

Do you like games? Then, I recommend gaslighting your mind that you're doing a quest.

[A-Rank Quest]: Write at least 1,000 words on your imaginative world.

[Failure]: You subconsciously become gay [Effective against straight people].

 

[MotherofAThousandYoung]

gaslight yourself. writing more now means more time for procrastinating later

 

[FluffyGura]

Scare yourself, if you don't write 5 chapters your future is ruined and you will live on the street as a begger.

 

[ArchlordZero]

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
-Abraham Lincoln

 

[CharlesEBrown]

You don't. You write something else instead, just to show that procrastination demon that you can do a better job procrastinating while being productive...

 

[Puji-Maki]

Relatable. My way of fighting procrastination is to force myself to write. It doesn't matter how many letters or words, I just have to keep writing until I can finish a chapter.

 

[Kay_Ship]

Read the last chapter you wrote and ask yourself "what happens exactly after that?" Then write that answer on the next chapter. Even if its a couple sentences, its a starting point

I found POV shifts have helped me but I don't know if your story has those

 

[Nolff]

Seriously, I keep promising myself to write 5 more chapters in my backlog, but I end up watching the Ice Age trilogy in one sitting instead. Please help me fight this demon. I'll do anything.
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Okay, you don't believe this but many writers in this forum wrote a second novel or a oneshot while they're procrastinating.

I am not lying when I said they are procrastinating, they cannot write shit when there's no motivational support from themselves or others.

So, since they've done/ready/watch/experience something, they tend to pop some ideas in their mind and write a story unrelated or not to their main novel.

Me? Well, I have 3 stories up my sleeve and been keeping one unreleased. I'm planning to write another one because I kept procrastinating and only have ideas of an Isekai game cafe owner fanfic trope.

You either fight back the demon or show em that your self-gaslighting is something it should fear. Trust me, you will want to write a oneshot.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

Do you like games? Then, I recommend gaslighting your mind that you're doing a quest.

[A-Rank Quest]: Write at least 1,000 words on your imaginative world.

[Failure]: You subconsciously become gay [Effective against straight people].

There is some logic to this l.

 

[Selfmaiden]

For me it usually helps to have multiple "pressing" projects, so I can procastinate on one by doing the other one. In the end I will have failed 50% of my plans and STILL be more productive than most people I know. (And most certainly this is not a great advice, but works for me. ;-) )

 

[melchi]

Is it urgent to fight said demon? Could it be done later?

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

If you find yourself procrastinating too often on your writing, you could try going to sleep earlier and raising your energy level the next day. Maybe that'll work.

 

[Zagaroth]

There's so many potential causes for Procrastination

One trick I've been using to help me overcome it is 'mirroring' of sorts. I have a voice chat set up in my discord where I head in, mute myself, and play music via a Discord bot. The point of that room is for any other writers to join in if they want (and others, if you want to hang).

The moment you log into the room as a writer, you are declaring that you are writing *right now*. And others know that you are supposed to be writing.

It helps put a little bit of pressure on the 'now' button.