I will set my alarm each morning to awaken me with this:
I will leave no trick un-exploited in my efforts to finish this book
- I will use the laundry trick (that’s 34 minutes to wash-write, and 28 minutes to dry-write)
- The captive audience trick (any time I’m in a waiting room; why else do I have a MacBook Air?)
- The just-5-minutes trick (what do I have to lose?)
- The muted Law & Order trick (I know I’ll turn it off to concentrate)
- The change of scenery trick again and again and again (the living room, the dining room, the guest room, the bedroom, the courtyard, the Starbucks, the other Starbucks)
I will resist watching this:
And this:
And especially this:
Every time I hear myself say any of the following:
You’re not a writer, you know
That sentence totally sucks
Um, wait, I think you missed a chance to gaze at your navel
No one wants to read this shizzle but your mom
I will drop and give myself 20
BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT, DAMMIT, AND I’M THE ONE WHO HAS TO WRITE IT!
What procrastination!!!!!! Yes you are the only one who can write this one!