Organisation
Because this blog’s about procrastination, too
A funny thing just happened to me.
I was procrastinating about getting a bit of work done - or I could fudge that and say I was taking a bit of a break after getting a stack of work done this morning (that’s true - I wrote my first 2,500 words for NaNoWriMo and also did [...]
Are my lists making me procrastinate more?
I read a scary headline today at a website I half-heartedly follow. It went like this: News Flash - To-Do List Fans are Closet Procrastinators. The first point is that this is certainly no news flash for me, and I’m not even a closet procrastinator - I think I’ve made it quite clear to many [...]
Writing deadlines, procrastination and impatience
I was just thinking in the shower (it’s no secret it’s my favourite place to think), and I realised there is one step more to my writing procrastination problem that I need to deal with: impatience.
My mother (among many others, no doubt) can well attest to the fact that I have something of an impatient [...]
The excuses for not writing that I’ll never use again
I discovered a great fiction-writing blog called Drops of Blood recently and this week Carolyn started a series which is right down my alley … she’s taking note of the various excuses she provides herself when she doesn’t work on her fiction writing, and then trying to find ways to avoid having that excuse rear [...]
Places where writers write
A post this week at the Writer’s Technology Companion tipped me off about a page at that often-lovely newspaper, the UK Guardian, featuring a collection of writers’ rooms. There are links to some 50 or more photographs and anecdotes about where a bunch of successful writers actually write. I’ve seen quite a few stories like [...]
Imagine finding 99 reasons not to write … I probably could
I have been out-procrastinated. In fact, while my own tendencies to put off writing have been waning recently - I actually seem to get my fingers on the keyboard more often than I used to - Anna from the Zwei Sprachen blog has been busily writing lists about why she’s not writing. Which in itself [...]
Organising my writing week (and not just my fiction)
One of the biggest problems I face with making progress on my fiction writing career (I say confidently, because I hope it one day becomes a career too) is organising all the writing I need to do each week - the stuff that pays the bills - as well as squeezing in time to work [...]