Also known as “Procrastination at its Finest.”
- Actually open your textbook from school and read it.
- Clean your bedroom.
- Clean the bathroom.
- Do laundry.
- Turn the laundry room upside-down in an effort to find all those missing socks the dryer hid.
- Create a CD of songs that would be absolutely perfect if your future novel was turned into a movie.
- On that note, create a list of celebrities that you would cast as your main characters for your book’s movie.
- Watch a movie. You know, for inspirational purposes.
- Surf your favorite forums. Many of them have to do with writing, of course.
- Stare out the window.
- Take your dog for a walk.
- Worship your cat.
- Eat.
- Go grocery shopping after realizing that you ate all your food.
- Browse through a recipe book.
- Test every single one of your pens to be sure they have ink.
- Decide you don’t have enough pens, and buy some more.
- For the heck of it, buy notebooks, too. For the pens, duh.
- Make some scrapbooks with all those photos that you’ve been accumulating for years.
- Change the oil in your car.
- Change the oil in your siblings’/parents’/spouse’s/cousins’/grandparents’/friends’ car(s).
- Better make sure all those tires have enough air, too.
- Take a nap. You never know what kind of inspiring dreams you’ll have.
- Pinterest.
- WordPress.
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bvedsted
April 9, 2013 at 6:58 pm
Hmm, sounds like a good plan to me! But you forgot about feeding the goldfish and weeding the garden! 🙂
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Kris P.
April 9, 2013 at 10:38 pm
Haha, of course! With my luck, instead of weeding the flower garden, I would “flower the weed” garden. 😉
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bvedsted
April 9, 2013 at 10:44 pm
I’ve done that once! I was ‘weeding’ like crazy until I found out it was the zinnia seedlings I was uprooting! lol
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bvedsted
April 10, 2013 at 11:19 am
Thank you for following my blog!
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anyi
July 21, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Reading this, along side all your points has probably been added to mine. Writing is a lot harder when you hone your procrastination skills everyday!
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Nelia de Villiers
August 18, 2015 at 3:40 am
This is so funny. My friend and I attended a writing school last week. We are so inspired but have not started. I will show her your list. 🙂 Thanx
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zzzhe
January 19, 2016 at 9:02 am
In my case of Things to Do Instead of Drawing I have #13 and #14 in repeat mode 😉 cheers for diversity!))
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