Ten Ways To Procrastinate While Trying To Write An Entire Novel In One Month
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 What do you do when you are writing a minimum of 50,000 words in November for NaNoWriMo and the main character that you so loved in the beginning has become an irritating Scrooge McDuck? You find ways to procrastinate!
1. Knit one handwarmer.
2. Cut your own hair and accidentally slice up the back of your neck with scissors. Oops.
3. Write a Shakira song title in eyeliner on your chest for a MamaPop Roundtable video.
4. Bake chocolate chip cookies and then eat half the batch.
5. Drink beer.
6. Play endless games of Scrabble on Facebook.
7. Abuse the TiltShiftGen app on your iPhone and achieve truly awful results.
8. Go to Shoppers Drug Mart and have an in-depth conversation about regular vs. waterproof mascara with the clerk with the the cakey eyelashes.
9. Work on a redesign of your Grace in Small Things social network.
10. Make a list of ten ways to procrastinate during NaNoWriMo.
the creativity, the lists
Reader Comments (10)
I bet you hear this all the time, but you have great boobs.
I feel like I should say something else, so this comment won't be so creepy. Love the handwarmers, too!
Man, I feel you. I am currently procrastinating on preparing for my defence! Which is next week! Over which I am experiencing a not-insubstantial degree of despair! My procrastination has included baking brownies, weatherproofing my windows, peeling an orange in as thin a continuous strip as possible, and innumerable online distractions.
Also, it should be mentioned, posting Grace In Small Things on my blog once a day, which I thought would be meaningless, but which really does help even my keel. So there you go.
A) I really need to learn to make hand warmers for my little sister. She has a metal plate in her wrist that hurts when it gets cold. Or perhaps I could buy some of yours?
B) Your cleavage? Amazing. Woah.
Susanlee, I do make armwarmers for sale sometimes. I can't find your e-mail, but you can hit me up at schmutzie at gmail dot com for details.
the cleavage does need commenting, so I be commenting. Also, how many handwarmers have you knitted in the last few months? At least one pair during the quitting-smoking episode, now half a pair during the avoiding-NaBoWhatsItBlo.. along with a veritable cornucopia of crocheted (that word looks weird) creaturistic creations. You are a very productive procrastinator.
Ha ha. I've learned so much by procrastinating. As someone who spent like, my entire life getting various degrees I was constantly supposed to be writing--and still am.
So what did I do instead of write? I read, usually. And damn, if I haven't read a lot of books. Sometimes this actually comes in handy.
Not usually.
Ah, this reminds me of why I need to cut out the internet. The internet is not as good as just sitting in a library as I did for basically 10 years. I was always looking for sections where I was sure I would not read the books but of course, I would end up reading microbiology or some such thing.
In the years we've known each other, I've never seen your cleavage. In fact, I'm not sure if I've ever seen you wear anything revealing. Clearly, I've been missing out. Big time. Hooray for boobies!
Seriously, this can not be said enough. Great tits.
Secondly, I totally know which clerk you mean. She often wants to give me makeup advice. Scary!
I was there for that tiltgen abuse on your iPhone! You were showing off your phone to me. This makes me feel important.
A few things became apparent to me after reading this post.
1) I need an iPhone
2) I need cleavage
3) I should have tried harder at NaNo.
My procrastinating became so prolific that it overran the actual task itself. I was no longer DOING NaNo, I was AVOIDING NaNo. Shameful.
So...did you win? Cuz, like, it's over tomorrow! :-)