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Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on July 4, 2010 at 9:16pm

Kari, You do read a lot of blogs. Do they inspire you? Do you find you want to embellish them with your own thoughts and opinions?

I play on the computer, watch instant Netflix on my TV, eat. I'll even clean house sometimes if I am really serious about procrastinating. I blame my husband, but that isn't fair to him. He is happy if I am writing.

Permalink Reply by Kari Wolfe on July 4, 2010 at 9:19pm

Sometimes they do inspire me. Sometimes they make me angry. Sometimes they make me sad. I have started leaving comments--it's taken a while to get the whole commenting thing down :)

And most of all, they make me think. Or laugh. Or both :)

But I still try to get my brain a-going :)

Ick--cleaning house is probably my least favorite thing to do. My hubby helps a LOT.

Permalink Reply by Rachel Thornhill on July 4, 2010 at 9:28pm

I procrastinate by watching netflix on my tv, reading blogs, facebook, cleaning, and playing with my children. I have two small children ages 5 and 2 so they stay at home with me all day so it is very easy for me to procrastinate.

Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on July 4, 2010 at 10:11pm

Having children at home can be inspiring for a children's book. I wrote one when mine were very young, submitted it and when I finally received a handwritten rejection I was satisfied and never sent it out again. (Another way of procrastinating).

I loved being a Stay-at-home mother.

Permalink Reply by Rachel Thornhill on July 4, 2010 at 10:17pm

Terri, I never thought of writing a children's book. I guess its because most of the things I write about are really dark/mainstream, meaning too controversial for children. I might try to write a children's book later on but I have plans for other things right now. My first novel isn't even done yet. I had set a goal for september 1st but if I keep procrastinating I won't meet my goal. After I'm done with my first novel, I have plans for a historical fiction novel and a collection of poetry.

Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on July 5, 2010 at 8:00am

Setting a hard deadline is the first goal to stop procrastinating. If there is a competition or contest deadline it is much more serious than the deadlines we put on ourselves. However, we can think in terms of a business. Our writing is our business with a contract we make to ourselves. More later-I have to do something else...

Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on July 5, 2010 at 7:20pm

Is it procrastination if your husband wants you to check the budget, bills, bank account, etc, on the computer when you thought you just might get some writing done. Then you are exhausted and seriously depressed from it and finding you have no moola to speak of. Not to mention, explaining why the $150.00 charge is on the credit card.

Permalink Reply by Zetta Brown on July 6, 2010 at 3:31am

I work on the computer all day so it's easy for me to take a "break" by surfing the net. Email is a big time-waster and destraction. I've even resorted to housework instead of trying to write...sigh...

I spend all day working on other people's writing and trying to get it promoted that I often have a hard time trying to turn that same kind of focus on my own work. And I get very frustrated because I want to be writing and publishing my work as much as they want to publish theirs.

Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on July 6, 2010 at 8:04am

I understand this. several times I have had terrific artist grant ideas for getting money for my own writing projects, only to put them on hold because I had to write grants for the organization I was with. Their projects were of course more important since I would be effected by the monies granted them. Always the deadline was the same and I could only focus on one grant.

We tell ourselves that we need time for our own muse to kick in with active results for our own heart and soul's sanity, but it is the paying gig that gets the attention. At some point, there has to be a time when we keep promises to ourselves. Working for others, but procrastinating on our dreams is a tough one.

Permalink Reply by Maryanne Carman on August 1, 2010 at 9:38pm

Twitter and spider solitaire are my fav ways to procrastinate. I wake up each morning and say "Todays the day!" and then I do everything in my power NOT to do what I'm meant to lol.

Permalink Reply by Terri L. Atkins Febuary on August 3, 2010 at 9:20am

Spider solitaire, Facebook and most recently, She Writes, are my writing adversaries. Great minds prevent over use of the necessary. : )

Permalink Reply by Kelli Swearingen on August 2, 2010 at 9:58pm

I'm a master procratinator and I'm not saying that with any pride. I read or when an article is due I'll notice that the faucets are looking dingy and start cleaning them, housework is probably my number two weapon, behind reading, against getting writing done. It's not like I'm not thinking about what I should be writing it's just getting my behind parked in a chair long enough to write it down. I sometimes carry my small tape recorder around as I'm avoiding work and tape my ideas and it actually works for me.

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