Comments on: Procrastination

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:21:25 +0000

you forgot BLOGGING as a procrastination device! I have too many blogs, and I always feel that should be posting on one of them . . .
I’m with you on all the others as well.
The thing I find is that procrastination is most rampant when one hasn’t written in a few days, and then it can get out of control. So good luck with WriMoFoFo.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:38 +0000

It’s not so much getting into the heads of my characters to work out what they are going to do next. I do that all the time (usually in meetings in the office). The problem comes with the task of putting it all down in words, that’s where the work comes into it. But I guess that is the difference between a daydreamer and a writer, so it just goes with the territory. Thanks for your comment!

By: Micaela Briscoe

Micaela Briscoe — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:23:44 +0000

I’m thinking….. procrastination may be less powerful if you really lived your characters; kind of like when you read a good book, boo and cry with relevance and can’t put it down even as you resent the approaching last page!!
Anyway to get back to absorption and obsession, how about some hypnotherapy!
Get someone (hmmm, I can think of two options) to put you into your novel and see how you live it from inside.
Apologies if this is all a sucking eggs comment!
I’m actually just procrastinating (hahaha!) from cleaning my desk in the study: a transition from Uni Student to English Teacher has indeed occurred
Love Iggy xx