Five minutes of each, maybe? Like writewritewrite like a fiend, & then ding! Timer (or whatever) goes off & you go pick up & put away as much stuff as you can in 5 minutes, & then switch? That way you theoretically might not get tired/distracted doing either for a bit?
(I say this like I have ever tried this tactic myself. Maybe I will though!)
I was going to recommend something similar. It could even be an hour each or whatever best suits you. Sometimes it helps knowing you can stop one thing and move to the next when you're feeling like you want to do both at once (or don't want to do either!).
Heh, an hour would probably kill me in that situation. I was reading something about... personal timeboxing? Mini timeboxing? the other day along these lines -- the idea that you do task x for a few minutes, then switch to another task for x minutes, b/c if you think to yourself, "I am going to study for an hour," your brain might well say, "NO NO NO I CAAAAAN'T." But it's easier to tell yourself that you can do something if it's just for 5 minutes. I think this strategy probably works better for some things than others (f'rex vocabulary words in a language you're learning or whatever) but still potentially useful! (Potential b/c I haven't really done it myself...)
But yeah, same principle (being able to stop & switch to something else). Just... shorter, heh.
Interesting. Five minutes, I don't think, would work for me. Not enough time to really settle in to the activity. I don't really get into the flow until at least fifteen minutes in to something.
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Date: 2010-11-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(I say this like I have ever tried this tactic myself. Maybe I will though!)
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Date: 2010-11-01 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-01 11:05 pm (UTC)But yeah, same principle (being able to stop & switch to something else). Just... shorter, heh.
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Date: 2010-11-02 12:11 am (UTC)