Procrastination Station….

I’ve tried to tally up the hours so far this year that I have spent writing and coming up with a worrying discovery.  There have been times when I thought I had been writing, when clearly I hadn’t and times I thought about writing but didn’t. For instance, dredging up in my mind all the nights the last few weeks, I realised that on Monday I sat down to write, managed about three words before deciding to go and cook dinner and on Friday last week, I got the laptop out and then the phone rang….36 minutes later I put the phone down and the laptop away. As the days pass I forget the details and just assume I’ve written…that is until I look at my word document.

I’m also good at finding ‘other’ things to do which are non essential but totally consuming when I’ve scheduled the odd hour or so to write – like re-arranging my socks into colour piles (seriously do I need them in colour piles?!.) Although I love writing, it seems at times that I hate the idea of it

12/01/2010. Tags: novel writing, writing, writing blog. January.