Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "Why Entering Flow State Feels Impossible" video.
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3:00 The task I'm currently doing is writing, which most of the is easier than most other tasks I'd do (programming, drawing, creating 3D characters)
And I write multiple stories at once, so if I don't know further in one story, I just switch to another one. I always choose the one I'm most motivated in or where I know clearly how to progress.
So whenever I get an idea, I write it down as exactly as it's currently in my mind. When I'm motivated I think of a general plan on what should happen in some specific story.
When I'm not that motivated, I write stories, which I already wrote down in an abstract way before.
When I'm not motilated at all, I just proofread existing stories and mark them an finished.
Each accomplished task keeps my motivation going or even increases it, so it never stops completely.
I have a overcomplicated system to manage all this, which sometimes forces me to focus on another story, which motivates me even more to write more stories. I have to continue writing stories, I started, in order to be allowed to start new stories. And I have to start writing new stories or continue short stories in order to be allowed to continue existing stories.
I even wrote a small program to show me how many stories are allowed to be started and how scenes each story is allowed to have by now.
So when I actively forbid myself to write something I want, I want to write it all the more. Usually I would just start writing that and realize it's too difficult, and motivation goes down.
What now happens instead, I write what I'm not that motivated in, in order to be able to write again what I really want to write. This way the motivation doesn't go down when it's difficult.
I write other stories which I also want to get out there, the motivation to write the stories I really want to grows and grows and I get new ideas. So when I'm allowed to write it again, the motivation is usually higher.
Or sometimes I'm still more motivated to continue writing the other story which is not allowed anymore, and only write it in order to be able to write other stories.
And I have different systems which encourage me to write more.
The more I have written in advance, the more I'm allowed to publish. I'm not allowed to just publish everything just after I finished.
And I'm only allowed to publish scenes of the story which has the most stories written in advance, so if I want to publish a specific scene as soon as possible, I also have to continue writing that specific story.
It sounds unneccessary, but it works pretty well.
And this way I'll be getting all interesting ideas I ever had, out without having to finish anything.
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