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| If you've got a few bucks, condition (1) is treatable. |
1. Sobriety
2. Hunger
3. Arousal
4. Satisfaction
5. Fatigue
As a writer, you experience many physical conditions that adversely impact your productivity: the loathsome among them is Sobriety. Hunger comes in second, dispelling the romance of the starving artist. If you have tried it, you will have noted that it is better not to have Hunger. Third place belongs to Arousal which, while not unpleasant, is fully distracting (you want to want it) and can only be resolved by measures that lead directly to the fourth and fifth conditions, Satisfaction and Fatigue. Nothing is so devastating to the creative drive as Satisfaction. Fortunately for art, Satisfaction is still very rare and fleeting and misplaced. Fatigue, on the other hand, appears in a sort of harmless abundance. Until you literally fall asleep drooling into your keyboard, Fatigue poses no real threat. Hide the clock in your taskbar, drink another cup of coffee, stop doing the arithmetic on the hours you could still sleep if you go to bed right now, and Fatigue might slow your progress by a factor less than a runny nose. Depending on the nature of your work, you may even find that writing becomes easier with someproximity to dream space.
Your mileage may vary.
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