Procrastination

Hello, all! Well, guess what? I fell into the trap that I said not to. Have been too tired and haven't touched my blog for nearly a week. Not very good.

Everybody gets hit by procrastination at some point. It's amazing what the human brain can come up with to put off something that really needs to be doing. In order not to write sometimes, I have cleaned cupboards that I only did a couple of weeks ago, cooked( definitely not my favorite occupation!) and done all sorts of things that don't really need doing in the immediate timezone. Usually that piece of writing is a total disaster when I finally get back to it, and, if it is for a client, needs more work than if I had done it in the first place.

The stupid thing about it is I like writing. It's simply that I have somehow convinced myself that I don't feel like writing just at that moment. If I actually force myself to sit down in front of the computer and free-write, within ten minutes or less, I am ready to resume whatever work I have on the drawing-board.


Free-writing is actually a cross-over between the logical left-brain hemisphere and the dreamy, sub-conscious right hemisphere, where all writing comes from. If you are using both when you write, then great! You've got the best of all worlds. Ignore the critical harping that come from the left-brain as you free-write and ignore the desire to immediately fix every spelling mistake and sentence screw-up.

If you do this, you will quite often come up with a new idea or a way to remove the block you are furious with. Little nuggets surface from the deep pit that is your sub-conscious when you free-write, put together by the gnomes that live there and they are usually  the answer to your prayers.

So, use free-write if you are stuck, hit by the dreaded procrastination, or just don't think what you are writing is right. The little gnomes do not understand what is right or wrong, only that what they have come up with is related to some message you have given them. They don't see things as logical or black and white, so they are free to turn your imagination into words.