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For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, the lovely ladies at YA Highway want to know:
The ways you procrastinate. You know. If you get around to it.
I have a problem: I am a sneaky procrastinator. I don’t mean that I hide my procrastination from others. I hide it from myself. When I just don’t feel like working on my novel, I will do something like write blog post. ‘Cause my blog is important too, so it’s not really procrastinating, is it? Or I will start researching things I don’t really need to know, but they are related to the book I am working on now, so they might be important some day, right? So that’s not really procrastinating either, is it? Is it?!
See, sneaky procrastinator.
I used to have a whole roundup of websites I would check often (FML, MLIA, FAILblog, PhotoShopDisaters, WhatIWore, and a few others I can’t remember now), and those were great tools for procrastination. But one day I just stopped going to those sites. I haven’t looked at any of them in months now, so they are out when it comes to procrastination.
I am good about actually sitting down to write (probably too good…my poor house–and husband–gets neglected far too often), so pretty much, my only procrastination when it comes down to it is blogging. And sometime obsessively checking my email, but only if I am expecting something (like I am now–why, oh why isn’t it here yet?). Even so, if I find myself procrastinating too much, I just flip the little switch on the front of my netbook and turn my internet access off. Easy-peasy.
Your turn! What is your favorite procrastinatory outlet?
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Ah, the research. Probably the most dangerous, because it’s necessary to a point…then it’s just following the blue trail of wiki links and watching the hours fly by.
I know! Research sucks me in so quickly.
I have been known to obsessively check my email as well.
And yeah, about Farmville… I am so glad I didn’t go further down that road before turning back. I think it must be the #1 time-waster in America.
I agree! It seems like everyone is obsessed with Farmville. It is taking over the world!
Ah, kind of but not really necessary research. It can suck me in for hours…
What shame. I totally burned myself. Anyways. My procrastinative outlet is new story ideas. “I know I should be working on what is already on my plate, but isn’t good to diversify? I mean, I don’t want to forget or diminish this great new idea, right? I should start writing this new stuff immediately!” Silly, isn’t it? Yes, yes it is.
I totally do that too! It is a horrible time-suck. I have gotten much better about just jotting down the basic idea and then getting back to work, but sometimes I let way too much time pass by while I am entertaining a new one.
thanks for procrastinating! Oops — we mean participating