Must. Stay. Off. Net.
Sharon December 20th, 2008
Ok, book is due on self-imposed deadline one week from today – and if I don’t get it done by then, I’m going to lose my set aside vacation time before I start up my classes (still spaces in all three classes, btw, if you want to register). So that means I need to get the hell off the net, and stop writing posts just because something that happened catches my eye or I’m teed off on some subject, or whatever.
So I need your help – as I said, I’m bad at self-discipline. I need you all to promise to yell at me if I post in the next week. I have this problem with self-imposed deadlines – I do best with externally imposed rules. So I’m asking for some external reinforcement from my kind and loyal readers. 1. If I post anything between now and the 27th, other than announcement that the book is done and in the hands of my publisher, yell at me. And 2. If I don’t announce on the 27th that the book is finished and sent to the publisher, yell at me. I need the vacation, but I can already hear in the back of my head the little voice saying…well you could…. Nope, I need to feel that there are loyal and supportive readers out there with baseball bats threatening me into completion 
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Thanks everyone!
Sharon
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I figured I’d start now — an extra boost of encouragement — Get the hell off of the internet!
Yeah, and you’re posting too much for your loyal readers to keep up with lately, anyway. Go write your book!
Sharon wrote: “last year my total earnings from all sources ran a bit under 14K”
Are you crazy? Stay off the internet and get back to work already!
Does that include you “checking” the comments to see what people are telling you??? off, off, off… it can suck you into a dry hole, instead of out “there” making a difference (i.e. finishing your book)!
amy in n calif
wishing she could make more time to write
I don’t have a baseball bat but I can growl at you really loud.
*GROWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLL*
GET BACK TO THE BOOK ALREADY!
Peace to all, Shamba
Write that book! If you are reading this, your are peeking! GET OFF THE BLOG!!!
Stay Off the Net until you finish your book!!!
WEll, ( I am going to be a bad influence here) it is not that you haven’t been writing. Some of you posts have been truly inspired. But now, dear, it is time to get back to work.
*Grin* Best of Luck getting the book finished, Sharon. NOW GO, GET TO WORK!
In support of you meeting your goal of both finishing your book and staying off the net until then – CONGRATULATIONS!
–Erika
P.S. I won’t tell if you take a timer and set it for 10 minutes and let yourself on the net for those ten minutes only, once each day until the book is done… Addictions are tough to break.
yeah, and here you are reading comments.
Naughty, naughty. Do you need a spanking?
Not much into ball bats.
Oh, I’m the same way. The ‘net is such a temptation when you have writing deadlines.
SHARON – GET OFF THE NET AND WRITE YOUR BOOK!!!!!!!!
As we say out here in Redneckville, “GET ‘ER DONE!!”
Scold, scold, scold (wagging my finger actually). Get your book done!! Do not write to us until you are finished!
Karen
We’ll miss you
You!
Go write a book!
NOW!
Kerri in AK
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Sorry to add a link but after the book is off this story is worth reading:
RAID on seeds (Life, itself) … by Monsanto
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/15/224022/35/752/673513
Ok, I’m on board to help…. GO WORK!! The interwebs will still be here when you get back.
Speaking of which, I should go be productive.
I think you type faster than I can read. Did you notice you’ve posted THIRTY times in December?
Sheesh! Get outta here!
Good luck, Sharon. I have a self-imposed deadline for my novel, as well. Doesn’t keep me off the internet. My extremely scary health diagnosis doesn’t keep me from wasting precious hours on the Internet.
I’m thinking of starting a 12-step group for Internet addicts. Hi, my name is Leila and I am a compulsive web-surfer. And I don’t even do games, or porn, or shopping – themselves incredibly addictive for so many – I just amble around aimlessly reading the news, recipes, peak oil/Middle East/Environment/literary blogs etc.
So if I see you posting it means I’m doing my own time-wasting.
Happy solstice and holidays to all.
Sharon,
We adore you and we are grateful for your writing. But some writing is best put into widely dispersed book form!
Thank you very much for spreading your message of how to live a satisfying yet sustainable life to people both on and off line.
You’ll have finished your third book in two years by the time you read this! You efforts in sharing your knowledge, viewpoints, opinions, and suggestions are TRULY appreciated!!
Congratulations and Thank You,
-curiousalexa
sharon. I am going to check each day and if I find you cheating then I wont read that post until your book is finished.
OOOOHHHH, SHARON!!!!!!!
NAUGHTY!!!!!!!!!
Folks, she just posted a comment over on Crunchy Chicken!!!
Spank!!
Go right back and get to work, young lady!
Or you’ll get coal in your Hanukkah stocking.
Hello Sharon,
I noticed that while you have not posted another entry, you have left comments on at least one other blog (Crunchy Chicken). I believe that the spirit of your post is that you have a task that needs to get done and you use the internet as a form of procastination. Further you have enlisted our help to keep you on task. As such, please consider this your reminder that if you choose to play around/procastinate right now, you will have to work when everyone else is having a good time. As my grandma would say… “back to work young lady.”
Augh, you caught me!
Wow, this more effective than I realized
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Sharon, back to work as ordered.
“I’m thinking of starting a 12-step group for Internet addicts. Hi, my name is Leila and I am a compulsive web-surfer. And I don’t even do games, or porn, or shopping – themselves incredibly addictive for so many – I just amble around aimlessly reading the news, recipes, peak oil/Middle East/Environment/literary blogs etc”
oh, sign me up…..I am the same, Leila
Thanks Sharon
Happy Solstice to all, and getting back to work myself.
Lisa
Yes, stay off the internet!
But when you come back, after your book is complete, I thought you might appreciate a quote from this article:
I think I can hear you laughing from here …
Okay, Sharon, I have Christmas presents to finish for my grandkids and am procrastinating as well. You, however, have a mission! And I am so eager to read your next books (all of them-I was very impressed by Depletion and Abundance). So get busy, girl. We don’t have forever here! You have important words to write so that the rest of us can read them (although, arguably, much of what you write on this blog is also noteworthy and important). However, when you finish the book, even more people will be able to read them. Get to work!!
However, to be truthful, I did check just hoping you had written a few words for us. Sorry!
Get off the net, Sharon!
I need the help, too. I’m trying to finish the first draft of my novel by New Year’s Eve. Aargh!
Yeah, well, some things are important. Like commenting on my blog
Sharon, can I still yell at you after your self-imposed deadline?
Leila Abu-Saba and Lisa, I would like to join your 12-step group too. I have the same problem! And I’m certainly NOT online looking at porn! Just geeky stuff–blogs, news, LATOC (unfortunately!), recipes and crafts. I need help! And those 2-3 hours back in my day…
Sharon, just have husband temporarily change your password. If you can’t log on to your site, you can’t surf.
Augh! Caught you!
You posted on Rod Drehers blog!
Admittedly, this is not bad since those folks benefit from hearing your point of view on that economic discussion thread.
HOWEVER!
Book. Must. Finish. Book.
We love your musings and will miss you…..enjoy the process!
I too do best working under pressure. Perhaps that is crazy, but I accept it.
Pax,
Shelley
Ahem! Sharon has been posting music comments at The Automatic Earth.
As my Uncle M. tells his grad students, “Put your butt in the chair and do your work.”
As per your request…
LOL! like every writer, she needs a pseudonym!
I’m not sure I’m not worse – checking daily to make sure the world hasn’t blown up, because I trust she’ll let us know if it did…
We’re all going to be in withdrawal by the time she comes back, especially after having been treated to so many posts recently! [wry grin]
Got my megaphone ready.
Stay. Off. Net. Sharon.
I’m just as bad, but at least I have a sorry excuse; my car died today and I couldn’t run my errands so I had some time to kill.
While Sharon is away, here’s something for us to do. Please oppose Tom Vilsack’s confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture.
Sign petition at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/t/8516/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783
Thank you!
Sharon posted a response today over at NoImpactMan about Christmas!
Bad girl!
Get back to work! And here’s a virtual whipcrack to show I mean it!
Kerri in AK
I’ve been waiting on this book…my DH isn’t much of a reader and he devoured your last book and I’ve promised him another about his favorite subject-farming. Even promised him to pre-order it when I could. DEE
Sharon, I’m not a fan of hitting people with baseball bats, but I am sewing right now, so how about a few pins and needles if you bother to even read or respond???
Don’t answer that!
Jyotsna
Hi Leila, Lisa, and Lisa Z! My name is Chile and I, too, am a compulsive web-surfer. There are games on the ‘net? I’d never know because I am too busy looking at blogs and news. I think there are now enough of us to hold an intervention for Sharon. She’s trying to be sneaky by commenting on other people’s blogs instead of reading her own, but we know all about those tricks, don’t we.
Sharon, unplug your modem. That will keep you off the Internet while you get your actual work done. Surfing doesn’t pay for food. Do you want your children to starve? (Oh, shut up already. I know you grow most of your own. I’m trying to make a point!)
PEAK!
No, not peak oil. I’m peaking to see if you posted today. No need for the pins and needles afterall!
Jyotsna
Wow, you guys are tough! You catch me out everywhere
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It is coming along…
I hope everyone is having a Happy Chanukah/Christmas/Solstice/Miscelleaneous Winter Holiday!
Sharon
Off the net… means off the net.
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