A drill exists that is not only a excellent for enhancing productivity, but much fun as well. Call up a handful of guys who work the same medium as you, and get together for 24 hours. During those 24 hours, you all have to produce a specific target. For writers, they have to write a complete novella. For comic book artists, a complete 24-page story, written and drawn. For painters, 24 paintings. For musicians, 10 songs. You get the idea. Some people who have been educated to believe that a good novel takes at least five years to write, this may seem either impossible or despicable. It is neither. It is very possible, I have seen results from several different mediums of this drill, and not only were the results there, they were often interesting, and in some cases really good. If you think about it, if you really go for making this target, no matter what happens, it is quite impossible that you would not at the very least learn something, isn’t it? What the drill does, obviously, is jar you out of all the strange and needless barriers that assert themselves when you attempt to create. Headaches, doubts, fear, needs and wants of other things, considerations of what should or must be, all that garbage. Everytime a barrier turns up, you just remember that you have a lot to produce before the 24 hours are up, and you decide to produce something, anything, and just go ahead. It has even been done pretty successfully as an eight-hour drill when people couldn’t make it 24 hours. But the purer the better, of course. And like I said, it is a lot of fun, so go ahead. A little advice: no alcohol or other drugs. And get in some walking during the week after.
The Speed Drill