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

[ailado.livejournal.com]

My sister's beau recently gave up email, and has said that that alone was nigh impossible. He's similarly addicted, and just that small step put a big snag in everything he did. Communication became so difficult. We forget (because we spend so much time here) that the whole world is addicted. It's like trying to give up meth while living with tweakers.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

That is a delicious metaphor. :D And yeah, that's a big part of it: once the "labor-saving" innovation spreads, the people who don't use it suffer mightily.