It is and thank you. I spend my nights dreaming up scenes and getting all hyped up but then I'm too tired to do anything and just fall into bed. When I wake up, I lost all that hype and go back to my daily routines. Today, however, has been productive.
You're welcome. Right? I so feel your pain. My issue though is that somehow I almost always think of NEW stories, like I don't have enough on my plate (or mind, lol). Awesome Congrats!
Thankies I get new story ideas all the time too. I try not to act on them until I dream them up completely while I work on things I already did finish up in my head. If I act too soon, my time is too split and my stories aren't well thought out and I lose interest
Wake up: Morning delight Afternoon: Thinking about writing, but at work so can't Evening: Light up a cigarette and pop in Alice In Chains Night: Repeat of the morning procedure, then sleep. Repeat in a continuous loop until a year late you barely still have chapter one written.
Three days now... still on chapter one of my first draft, and STILL haven't quite decided the direction of the story.
Up until about two weeks ago, I hadn't touched my electric guitar in nearly a year - I've been doing it acoustic for quite a while. So I procrastinate now by telling myself, "I gotta practice electric! My picking technique has gone all to ratshit and I need to sharpen up!" So I hang the guitar around my neck, stare at Scrivener with my story project up, and noodle away on the strings, improvising solos to the TV commercials that come on in the background and generally blissing out musically when I should be writing.
Well that doesn't sound like procrastination. You're still in the building stages! I didn't touch my cello in a while. Can't stand playing around when someone is in the same room (Small apartment). Picked it up last week and the weather change caused one of my strings to snap >.>
*checks emails* *let's get writing...* *but first let me check Facebook* An hour later *better get writing* *WF!* 30min later *All right, let's do this!* *checks Facebook - there's nothing.* *checks emails - there's nothing* *oooh fun article! Article that I don't wanna read! Pointless and waste of time article! Let's read everything!* *Buzzfeed and funny pictures!* 2 hours later *DAMMIT gotta write! Now!* *looks at clock - crap, time to get ready for work* *got only 5min left. Ah, let's check Facebook/WF again* So now you know
Searching random things on the internet. When you write by typing and there's wireless anyway...a slippery slope indeed.
Yeah, but I usually complete beginning chapters in two to three days. And now this is the fourth day, and I am still nowhere close to being done with it. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I'm trying to overcome that, but... there's no stopping my feeling of failure. Speaking of procrastination... I'm here, aren't I?
Yeah, you ever try first writing BEFORE emails fb etc, even just a sentence? That way your mind is primed
True, but I usually go on FB/WF etc because my mind is blank. Well, I guess I just don't wanna think... lol Don't wanna push myself to think. Like right now. I really need a nap! Slept for 6 hours and then had a full day facing bouncing children looool. Thankfully it was an easy day because we just mostly blindfolded the little creatures and spun them around and got them to pin a nose onto a our pumpkin But writing... Currently I have doubts about where the novel is going - I wrote something and it's taking me in a direction that I'm not sure I wanna go, and that I'm unconvinced of anyway. Since then I haven't written an awful lot. Been editing Chapters 2-4 instead, so still work. But now it's got to the tiny details of editing in Chapter 4 and it's tedious... and I'm still wondering about restructuring Chapter 1 - it's not a rewrite, just a reordering of scenes and an inclusion of an old scene that I'd originally discarded. But... eeeegh...
