Study Skills Library - Academic Skills Center - Cal Poly. Hmm. I dunno. Is it really counterproductive or are the authors plotters who don't get an alternate work style? what do you think? I don't feel I've lost my freedom when I'm under deadline. I feel more like, Yay! I'm finally going to get this done! Plus, check out the "Characteristics" which read like a description of your typical author, except for the part that describes one of my brothers, who is never on time for anything. Laughing! Oh, my. Among the advice? "Remind yourself that great writers, poets, artists at one time or another completed their work." Uh, yeah, but some of them were procrastinating panters!Read more at www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc...