I had one of those BIG procrastination days yesterday. You know the ones where you blog hop, website hop, forum hop, and everything else besides writing.
I always get this way when my book is sort of up in limbo, and I don’t know where it will go next. Does that make sense? I need my future within my hands, darn it. LOL!
Anyway, per this blog post I did a search for “Writer Procrastination”, and I came up with the brief article titled, “Advice on Avoiding Writer’s Procrastination”. The opening lines are: “Need a shot in the arm to keep writing? How about a boot in the pants?”
LOL! That’s what I need, but I’d just say, “a kick in the ass!”
Anyway, this writer did the unthinkable.
“Procrastinators get no sympathy from me. In 1986 when a publishing company accepted my four-page book proposal, the catch was this: In order to meet their spring deadline, the editor would need the completed novel in six weeks. I did not have six weeks to devote to writing a novel. I was working full time at the university. I was teaching a night class in fiction. I was taking two graduate English courses that semester, both requiring research papers. I had an eight-year-old daughter. I was six weeks pregnant, and I felt awful.
I wrote the book in six weeks.
It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Novel in 1987. It’s still in print.”
My hat off to her! I would never be able to pull that off! =D Her name is Sharyn McCrumb. And she’s a NY Times best-selling author.
