Susan Haven
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Continuing my A to Z list of reasons I am not writing my book… Unorganized! Because, if I was organized, the U post would come before the V post, right? But while I have a form of organization, it’s not really organization. More like sorted piles. Or sordid piles? I get the two confused. It’s not…
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Continuing my A to Z trip through all of my reasons that I am not writing…. Victuals… or Food! Since I have a family and some pets, at least part of my weekend “free time” is spent obtaining our provisions for the week. Since I live with men, we don’t call it shopping. It’s Hunting…
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Continuing my alphabetical trip through my favorite reasons for procrastinating…. Tragedy. There have been several tragedies in the news this week, when community institutions, rather than serving the public, caused harm or death. Trust in these institutions took years, and even generations to build, and yet all could be gone in a day. I know that have…
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Sleep is good.
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Continuing my A to Z list of why I am not getting anything done on my novel…. Resistance…there are entire books about how resistance keeps us from writing the books we are meant to write. I believe the best book I have read about resistance so far is Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art Since…
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Quiet. As I try to think of a procrastination excuse that begins with Q, all I hear is silence. Q is hard letter. First of all, it is co-dependent on the letter U. U can live life on it’s own (Spell & Grammar check hates that sentence). But the Q? What to do with it?…
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I am so drinking this Even if I am not a Pinot noir fan.
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Pen and Paper. My favorite way to write my first drafts. Somehow writing feels more real if it’s in a spiral notebook with a brightly colored pen. I used to buy those expensive journals, but could never write anything worthy of such a pretty journal. Then I started buying one subject spirals on sale during…
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Over- I tend to procrastinate by over-doing: over thinking, over planning, over plotting, over writing, over editing, over obsessing about absolutely minor details. For example, while writing my WWII novel, did I really need to research the history of the airplane and its use in battle? Probably not, not one iota was used, nor should…
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The very best procrastination tool of all…the NAP! Nothing is more delicious than a nap, especially on a rainy chilly afternoon. My best naps are on the sofa, with a book open on my stomach, and a football game droning in the background. Football seems best, the voices on the golf tournament are too annoying…
