tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post115616566746389166..comments2023-10-28T05:33:15.060-05:00Comments on The Writing Playground: ProcrastinationMarilyn Puetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073134550080890157noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1156187102237824232006-08-21T14:05:00.000-05:002006-08-21T14:05:00.000-05:00You are looking (figuratively speaking of course) ...You are looking (figuratively speaking of course) at the Queen of Procrastination. I have "To Do" lists from years ago that still need doing. Why? If I knew, I could sell the secret and retire for good. But once I finally stop putting things off and get started on a project, I'm in it for the long haul.<BR/><BR/>I started a new short story on Saturday. The opening isn't going well (so what else is new???) and I've put off working on it. I'll pick at it off and on until I finally hit on the perfect opener and then I'll write like gangbusters until I get to the end and I'll obsess over the perfect ending. Ditto the perfect title.<BR/><BR/>Is procrastination something instinctive? :grin: And PC, will you come over and sort MY sock drawer?Playground Monitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07444337591281145863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1156186674931094582006-08-21T13:57:00.000-05:002006-08-21T13:57:00.000-05:00Let's see, i'm two drafts into my paranormal forme...Let's see, i'm two drafts into my paranormal formerly known as chick-lit that still has no black moment and a shady ending and just decided before tacking draft #3 that it wants to flip flop the first few chapters. So instead of doing that I'm working out in the garden, and trying to convert vhs tapes to dvds which turns out to be harder then I thought it would be (darn dropped frames)Lishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037890237546942702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1156171176472582042006-08-21T09:39:00.000-05:002006-08-21T09:39:00.000-05:00Right now all my current MS is missing is the scen...Right now all my current MS is missing is the scene where the hero has his big realization and rushes off to save the heroine. For the life of me, I'm just not ready to write it, even though I've written all the scenes afterward. <BR/><BR/>So...continue edits on book one, develop a fascination with scrubbing the textured floor of my bathrub, catch up on old Tivo episodes...<BR/><BR/>SPAndrea Laurence AKA Smarty Pantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518751514879244662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1156168683092013912006-08-21T08:58:00.000-05:002006-08-21T08:58:00.000-05:00Jump right in? You mean AFTER I sort the sock draw...Jump right in? You mean AFTER I sort the sock drawer, and alphabetize AC's bookshelf?<BR/><BR/>I avoid with the best of them.<BR/><BR/>PCProblem Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01456049865200737618noreply@blogger.com