[muerdeme]

I think that for me this only makes sense for projects that have no explicit deadline. For a procrastinator, a deadline is the only thing that matters. I can block off all the time that I want to for a project, but if my brain is in procrastination mode, virtually nothing productive will get done.

Early on, I imagine that guilt about doing nothing during the creative blocks would motivate me. Over time, I suspect whether anything got done would roughly break down based on whether there is an explicit deadline. With no explicit deadline it would depend on how excited I was about a specific creative project.

If you're doing creative work for a living, I don't think that you can assume deadlines away.

[derefr]

Some kinds of creative work have deadlines that aren't on the same kind of timescale that procrastination happens on, though. Writing a book, for example—you're given an advance and six months to write the thing; whether you waste an hour watching TV when you could be writing has a negligible effect on how much time you have left to write.