#procrastiductivity

[marlynnofmany]

It's nice when you can trick your own brain by attacking the to-do list in the wrong order.

Sure, This Thing is the most important and I should do it first. But I don't wanna.

So perhaps I can do That Thing instead, and also This Other Thing, and oh hey look I can fit That One in without any real effort...

Then hey look, my to-do list only has one thing on it now. And that looks easy.

[marlynnofmany]

Me: "I don't wanna write this next scene. I haven't figured out how it's going to go."

Also Me: "I could do this other work instead, which is much less fun."

Me: *stares into space for minutes on end* "Oh hey, I know what should happen in that scene now."

[marlynnofmany]

Avoiding work on the big project like a child banging pots and pans, then getting distracted by a smaller project like it’s a passing butterfly.

I haven’t figured out how to catch the moon in a jar -- yet -- but I can probably catch this.

[thebookewyrme]

Come ONNNN...I just need a few hundred words before bed! On the bright side, I did some outline-tweaking and re-examination this evening. I now have a neat rectangle of sticky-notes on my white-board. This makes me happy, even if it wasn't exactly productive toward my word-count.