Oooh yes, I hear you. One thing I tried with moderate success was to give myself interweb in hour-long slots, and then make myself do something else (ideally something physical) for an hour.
And re using computer without being lured by interwebs ... I bought myself a basic laptop without an internal modem, second-hand, and wrote most of the last novel in NoteTab on that. The investment definitely paid off. (This was before I had wireless, so there were rooms in the house where I couldn't have got online even with a modem. Now not even the garden is safe space. :))
I really enjoyed a week without interweb when I was lounging by a pool in a hot sunny country. A weekend without interweb when I was huddled indoors in country-of-residence didn't have the same effect at all.
Immersing myself in fanfic, I forget how to read anything as long and complex as a Real Novel (and some of the fic I read is novel-length, but, y'know, qualitatively different). It's life by drip.
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One thing I tried with moderate success was to give myself interweb in hour-long slots, and then make myself do something else (ideally something physical) for an hour.
And re using computer without being lured by interwebs ... I bought myself a basic laptop without an internal modem, second-hand, and wrote most of the last novel in NoteTab on that. The investment definitely paid off. (This was before I had wireless, so there were rooms in the house where I couldn't have got online even with a modem. Now not even the garden is safe space. :))
I really enjoyed a week without interweb when I was lounging by a pool in a hot sunny country. A weekend without interweb when I was huddled indoors in country-of-residence didn't have the same effect at all.
Immersing myself in fanfic, I forget how to read anything as long and complex as a Real Novel (and some of the fic I read is novel-length, but, y'know, qualitatively different). It's life by drip.