>>agarde+(OP)
Compare Robert Hanks, "On Putting Things Off"

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n17/robert-hanks/on-putting-things-...

>>agarde+(OP)
Don't worry about what this article talks about. If you're a writer, or an artist, or a musician, etc and are having trouble getting things done, the solution is as simple as this:

Set a time slot everyday where you will sit down and do nothing but work on creating your art. Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, your only job is to sit there and create for the whole time period. That's the key, is consistently trying to do it.

I highly recommend reading the The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, he goes into this a lot more - https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...

He also talks about the concept of "Resistance", which is basically a force of nature that's works against you getting things done, and that gets stronger the closer you are towards doing work that is meaningful to you.

>>kdamke+B7
Yep, I agree with this. I wrote my first novel during my daily commute (40 minutes each way), and part of the trick was getting into the habit of opening my laptop as soon as I sat down. I also discovered a lot about writer's block. I wrote about the whole thing here: https://medium.com/@gabrielgambetta/how-i-wrote-my-first-nov... (the companion article about the open source pipeline to get it published was discussed in HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311200)

>>kdamke+B7
John Cleese talks about the same as you're saying in his lecture on creativity: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-crea...

The videos in that link seems to be down, but the whole talk is worth a watch: https://vimeo.com/121544005

>>kdamke+B7
Mason Curry also wrote a book about artists and their schedules http://masoncurrey.com/

>>cables+Tc
You kid, but there are a number of authors who have "inadvertently" written entire works on reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Sweet_Rome

>>ramble+di
See also T.P. Wright's Law governing the rate of process improvement with the volume of production. This focuses on labour input, not quality output, but is on the order of 10-15% with each doubling of output.

Good discussion and references here: http://tikalon.com/blog/blog.php?article=2013/technology_pro...

J. Doyne Farmer discusses this extensively in his work (referenced above).

>>cables+Tc
I treat forums as writing prompts. I've written long-form works based on questions, or discussions, or occasionally to debunk items.

This started as a comment in a G+ thread, _including_ the 37 footnotes: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/5l_8MqtVwLLvX_DabPjY-g

This got written (along with the research for the numbers) because I'd gotten sufficiently pissed off at zero-information-basis discussions on the topic: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/nAya9WqdemIoVuVWVOYQUQ

A re-share of a meme that struck me as slightly too-good-to-be-true inspired this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/39w8u4/jp_morg...

Follow-ups to the Google numbers piece above inspired this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...

I've also used forums to try out ideas I'm developing, solicit feedback, etc., etc.

Most of my writing is nonfiction and explores topics, or reports on findings based on explorations, usually of literature within one or more fields.

And I've considered shopping a few of these pieces around, though I've not yet done so.

>>dredmo+Rw
Another example is how patient outcomes improve with the size of the healthcare facility a.k.a patient volumes e.g. http://www.mexicobariatricsurgerycenters.com/analysis-bariat...

>>cestit+bv
There's this thing called "glowfic" which is essentially that.

http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site

http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/31812.html

>>agarde+(OP)
Reminds me of this TED talk about 'Grit' by Angela Lee [1]

  [1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance?language=en

>>rpazya+FB
If you're worried about how to make the game, I really recommend watching some of the handmade hero videos:

https://hero.handmade.network/episodes

I think it's really cool to see Casey walk through all the steps that go into figuring out how to make the game on stream. I skipped the very beginning, as it was pretty windows specific, but the first episode I watched was really cool:

https://hero.handmade.network/episode/win32-platform/day021

He sets up auto-hot reloading of the C++ game code, to cut down on dev time.

It's actually a large body of work, (more than 100 hours!), and even watching at x2 speed, it'll take a long time to get through all the videos, but I think they are pretty informative, and fun to watch.

>>barry-+5s1
I tried looking for it with Google and couldn't find it, either on or off his site. I did find an interesting article about the obsolete practice of sanding floors to clean them: https://www.gwern.net/Sand