@ waves
Totes
I definitely don't blame you. I'm a terrible procrastinator myself, so if I had problems with my laptop, I probably wouldn't be writing either. Plus, that seems really frustrating, and I'm easily irritated
So yeah, I don't blame you. I'm sort of the same way in that, if I make an outline for a chaptered story and I already know just about everything that's going to happen over the course of the story, I completely lose interest. I was doing well and updating consistently with my JulNo last year, but then I got my wisdom teeth removed, and I was so drugged up for like, an entire week after, that I got behind and sort of gave up
I don't have a problem updating group stories because I have other people that are relying on me, plus there are other people to bounce ideas with so that I don't have a chance to grow bored with the story. Like your roleplaying, I have a bad habit of writing out all of the interesting events in a given story as oneshots first, so then I don't care about working on the actual story because I've already written all of the "fun" stuff. I also have a terrible contest addiction, so I'm stuck in this constant loop of writing oneshots for contests, and being pressed by those deadlines kind of gets in the way of me updating chaptered stuff or writing oneshots that
aren't for contests.
This is kind of the blind-leading-the-blind here, but maybe if you tried to space out all of the preliminary aspects of the story, you'd be more likely to stick to it? For example, maybe wait until you've reached a goal of x chapters before you make a soundtrack for the story? Or maybe every x chapters, you could make a new banner/layout/whatever to keep things fresh and interesting?