Saving Yourself From Yourself

[Odeseus]

It is all about what makes sense to YOU. Personally, I just really tried to separate "work" from "play." If I needed to study, I'd be in the library with the school's shitty internet. I literally *couldn't* play even if I had wanted to. If the library was closed, or if I had to pull an all-night paper writing session, I'd claim an unused classroom and stay in the building all night. The doors would lock, but only from the outside. I just had to be careful not to lock myself out.

When I was back in my apartment/door room, it was "play" time. I tried not to study there just to keep things separate.

The exception was when I wrote my master's. Quite a bit of that process was simply writing, re-writing, and re-writing some more. Literally hundreds of hours with no clear "finish" lines because of the way I write. I would spend an hour on a paragraph if it didn't feel right to me, and you just can't write endlessly for hours and hours and hours. At least I couldn't. What I did is find a camp like AC in OOT where you kill 1 (trivial) mob every 6 minutes or so. That way I'd write for 6 minutes, kill the PH, write 6 more minutes, rinse and repeat.

The problem is that you'll want to go camp something more involved. I just had to be disciplined enough to not do it.