Leave work undone. Start new work often. Keep no records, refuse to track your progress. Establish no milestones and be fixated monomaniacaly on goals. Pay no attention to process and clench your mind mightily. Wish for outcomes and do not do anything concrete to make them a reality. Use words of negation like punctuation. Make eloquent excuses, put the blame on everybody from your parents to your best friend's best friend. Tolerate no compromises, be unforgiving and angry and frustrated.
Hang on in unquiet desperation sitting in quiet cafes in the hours of the early afternoon once the office lunch crowd has gone back to work.
Make housecalls where you berate Prince[ess] Charming for not plucking you from this nightmare of your own creation.
"Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn't one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it's all what a person thinks about it. And to me, Denmark is a prison."What Shakespeare is explaining so beautifully is that our thinking is the root cause of our problems. Bad things happen to us sometimes, there is no changing that, what makes these bad things into a problem is when we decide we don't want to take responsibility for our lives anymore and want someone to comfort us and tell us it is going to be okay if we can just get back on our feet and make another attempt which would be well and fine if we then proceeded with the part where we get up and get on with it. Wanting comfort is human, wanting comfort to the exclusion of all else smacks of addiction.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.
In the context of writing or wronging, sometimes trying to imagine the worst way to write helps us to find the insight that lets us find the gaps in our process and tilt the balance of our write-ness and wrongness towards righteousness.
Hopefully.
