[Amber H.]

Hmmm....One thing that works for me when I start to let other things around the house slide in favor of writing (at the computer) is to tape a lerge piece of paper to the screen with a message saying something like, "clean bathroom first!"
It helps somewhat, unless I get a sudden inspiration and just HAVE to enter the plot twist before I forget it. Then I just rip the not off and the bathroom, kitchen , or whatever else gets to stay dirty another day.

As for homewrok....Ummmm......I never did homework (assigned by a teacher) until my senior year. That was only because I had to in order to be a member of an ap type chamber ensemble (had to have good grades). I discovered that if I created a calendar for myself that had a schedule on it, that listed assignments etc. I did pretty well. Up to that time, I was the student from hell. I would blow off all of the busy work, go read about things that interested me, occaisonally showed up (usually in my pajamas) aced the tests and listened to my parents convince my teachers over the phone that I wasn't cheating (I had already read most of the required reading and some of the textbooks before I was in high school-Okay, I'm a total geek). It was BAD! DON'T DO IT!

Even with pulling a 4.0 my senior year, I barely managed to graduate. DO YOUR HOMEWORK PLEASE!