Writer's Block: Take My Advice

[packbat]

What piece of advice do you wish you could take? View other answers

What advice do I wish I could take, but cannot?

Don't read this.

Stop browsing Livejournal. Stop getting that little burst of joy when you're see new LJ notification emails. Stop commenting on other people's posts and comments. Stop feeling like you're connecting when you fling your messages-in-bottles into the websurf and find others washed up on your shores.

Stop browsing other journals. Stop reading other comment threads. Stop replying in other comment threads. Stop looking for meaning in electrons.

Ditch the webcomics. Ditch the web serials. Ditch the forums. Ditch the Internet games. Ditch the e-books. Ditch the YouTube music videos. Get rid of the entertainments of your hours.

Throw away the computer. Live in the real world of hard work and rare pleasure.

Give in.

Comments

[bulmafox.livejournal.com]

o_O...why would you want to do something like that?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Because it would make it easier to discharge my responsibilities. I am, to some extent, addicted to the World Wide Web, and quitting cold-turkey has a certain rough-and-ready attraction.

Also, because my cynicism likes to propel the idea that the world is a harsh and terrible place, one in which "easy" is synonymous with "sinful".

On the other hand, of course, I want not to do anything like this, never to do anything like this. But it's the thing that came to mind.