When you’ve got Things You Really Should Be Doing, there is no finer time to put bootees on a brown dog:
Sometimes I’m really good at using procrastination to light a fire under other things I’ve been meaning to be doing. It’s a way of legitimising the not-doing: I avoid doing the washing by cleaning the [...]
Also taggedJust stop it.
I know, you’ve got a whoooooole day to squander. Plenty of time, right? You can cook, knit, do the sudoku, do the cryptic crossword, and still have heaps of time left over. Plenty of time for writing/whatever thing you were going to do today.
Probably not. I have this conversation with myself nearly every [...]
I procrastinate a lot. I think there’s probably a fairly robust argument to be made that currently working on this blog post is a form of procrastination, since I’m supposed to be working on something else, but let’s move past that issue, shall we?
I have always used doing the washing as a procrastination tool: I [...]
How the hell would I know? I’m a short-arse with blue hair and a predilection for polski orgorki straight from the jar. I think about this question a lot, usually while munching said polski ogorki. The same answers come up, over and over, from almost everyone you ask. Family. Health. Etc. Those are givens. That’s like [...]
Also tagged banging on…doing things we always wanted to!
Well, faithful chums, M and I are off for a month to New Zealand. I can’t wait. We depart tomorrow morning, so consider this your official warning that this here blog is going to take a one-month hiatus while I prowl around the wilds of NZ, getting my [...]
When all else fails, abandon hope completely. Somebody completely forgettable once told me “If at first you don’t succeed, try again: then quit.”
I love NaNoWriMo: I think it is an awesome idea, and fun and exciting for writers of all walks. It reminds me why I love writing, that exciting moment where the story’s force [...]
Another tangentially-related activity you and many others can enjoy instead of working studiously, industriously on your NaNo manuscript is bagel making!
Everyone loves bagels. Well, I do. I freaking can’t get enough of them at the moment. I’m having them at breakfast, then taking them to work and toasting more for lunch. I keep wanting to [...]
Still behind on that NaNo word count, huh? Yeah, me too. Mostly because I get easily distracted. Like writing blog posts on things that are tangentially related to NaNo.
Beans! Delicious, recently-roasted Alan’s Blend from Coffee for Connoisseurs, waiting to be ground. I’ve ordered from there a few times and I heartily reccommend the Espresso Cioccolato. [...]
Also tagged NaNoIf, like me, you’re behind on your wordcount for NaNoWriMo — and by behind, I mean you would have to write 13,000 words today in order to bring yourself up to where you’re meant to be by two days ago — there are many options available to you to offset the pang of an arbitrarily [...]
Also tagged NaNoHonestly, don’t take advice from me. I haven’t a clue. I started out on the ol’ NaNoWriMo bandwagon, and astonishingly I was doing pretty well — not only did I find myself ahead of the curve, but I actually liked what I was writing (well, not all of it, but that’s okay too). And then [...]
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