Cleaned the bathroom, including inside the cupboards
Eaten a whole cake
Finished three knitting projects
Decided it’s important to watch all of The Walking Dead immediately
Decided it’s important to learn how to use the knitting machine I’ve owned for eight years
Googled the lyrics for ‘Reproduction’ from Grease 2
Gone through the 600+ books on my Kindle, organising them into folders and reading all the samples
Listened to all the extras for Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater and wondered if I should learn to play an instrument too
Organised all of my toiletries into separate bags
Read about the difference between bourbon and whisky
Learned how to make an Old Fashioned
Washed four loads of laundry
Pinned 200 pins
Gone to the beach
Watched a whole series of Bones
Replaced the lightbulbs in all the things in the house that needed new lightbulbs
Replaced the batteries in all the things in the house that needed new batteries
Learned how to make bracelets from shoelaces
Updated my blog.
oh dear, I’ve been there
But really, who wants to clean out their bathroom cabinet … ew. I’d rather write another novel.
@asrai it’ll pass, right? Tell me I’ll get through this…
@kathy the cake-eating part was much more fun than the cleaning, granted
It will passssssssssssssss. I promise.
Do some morning pages for a few days. 3 pages of free writing in the morning.
Set a timer for 5 or 10 minutes and work on your novel.
Do some mind-mapping/clustering/brainstorming.
use http://www.stickk.com/ or twitter to set some goals to be accountable for.
Or just say to hell with it, build a blanket fort and hide inside. With hot chocolate and marshmallows and cookies.
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/habits/dont-face-your-fear/
Aw, thank you Asrai.
Spookily enough, that is exactly the advice I would give someone else, if the situation was reversed, cos I love The Fluent Self AND morning pages AND mindmaps AND (but most of all) hot chocolate & cookies. Putting it like that, the path ahead seems very pleasant, even inviting!
Much appreciated. Imaginary internet hugs to you. X
Thank you so much. You’ve given me some marvelous ideas as to how to avoid writing this week. Much appreciated!
Hi Rhian,
I nominated you in the Creative Chaos award on my blog. It’s just a bit of fun but thought you might like it. Details on my latest post http://wp.me/pBFJw-4w
Toni
Toni – I haven’t posted in reply to the Creative Chaos thing yet cos I’ve not been here much, but thank you! Pretty sure I said thanks via Twitter, but just in case. . .
Claudia, I am always full of such ideas. Hit me up any time you need procrastination justification