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Each week, YA Highway hosts a blog carnival called Road Trip Wednesday, in which contributors discuss a specific topic on their own blogs and invite readers to do the same. This week's Road Trip Wednesday topic is:
The ways you procrastinate.
I, my friends, am an expert procrastinator. How do I do it, you ask?
Well...
I'll tell you in a little while.
What's that?
You need to know now?
For this exact post?
Oh, okaaaaay.
The main ways I used to procrastinate involved reading Hollywood gossip blogs like TMZ and trolling MySpace, but I realized I was wasting a lot of time reading negative stuff about people I don't know (hmmm, goes for TMZ and MySpace), so I stopped visiting those sites.
I made the switch to Facebook-only last year, and I've found I can stay in touch with friends on there without the time-drain MySpace was bad for. Unless you play Farmville, for which there should be a Farmville Addicts Anonymous support group. I played it for one week and then quit cold turkey. A time-sucking vortex, that game is.
Another way I procrastinate is by blogging or reading other writers' blogs. Though I consider blogging/reading blogs to be a part of my job, this is what happens when I am procrastinating:
I'll just see if I have any new comments on my blog. I'll just see if anyone I follow has posted anything new. I'll just see what new comments were left after mine on Kiersten White's blog...
On it goes.
And finally, my biggest procrastination tactic is... *DUM DUM DUM*
Reading.
When working on my book is just too darn difficult and I want to put it off until later (at which point I will of course magically know exactly how to fix the one sentence I've been staring at for 30 minutes straight), I read.
Because, you know... it is a part of my job, after all. An even bigger part than blogging. It's really important that a writer read ALL THE TIME, right?
Right?
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11 comments:
Good for you for quitting Farmville! I've never played it. It frightens me, how many friends I have that seem to have dozens of updates a day on that thing!
Stop pre-stealing my post ideas! First you blog about winning a contest before me, and now this? I was totally going to write about procrastinating today.
I do much the same. Blogging/other internet related things is a HUGE time sucker for me. I have to be very careful or I spend all my time on the internet.
Ah, Farmville. I am one of the lucky ones who has not been pulled into the game. I saw how addicted my friends all got, so I blocked all Farmville applications from my News Feed. Now they can't even tempt me.
That might have been the smartest Facebook move I ever made. It's not like I need something else fighting for my attention!
When I procrastinate lately, I go out for a walk. I figure that is just as productive. And I've been doing a lot of procrastinating lately. I want to give my head a break from writing. Typing. I've ben trying to type things up, I don't much like that part at all.
Michelle - Thanks for stopping! It scares me, too, how many people seem to play Farmville all day long. What was even scarier, though, was how addictive it was. I am glad I quit while I was ahead! :D
Debbie - Yep, the internet is our best and worst friend. And procrastination must be in the air today. Natalie Whipple also wrote about procrastinating today, too.
Rachel - you are right - probably a VERY smart move on your part. :D
Heidi - I definitely think walking is productive! And sometimes we just need a break!
I'm so glad I'm a procrastinatory outlet for you : )
Not that I, uh, ever procrastinate by having myself on Google Alert or anything...
Great, now I sound lazy AND hugely egotistical.
Farmville is evil.
Procrastinators unite! Oh man, I may have to steal this blog topic since I've been procrastinating on writing some of the blog post ideas I saved. Hmm.
I think the internet in general is a giant TIME-sucking vortex of black-hole-like doom. My FB game addiction is Bejeweled, partly because it calls to both my competitiveness and laziness. Deadly combination.
My procrastination creeps up on me. I’ll start writing and a few minutes later I’ll want to listen to music. I’ll flip to a song that matches the mood of the scene and then I’ll wonder what the music video for that song is like. Of course I won’t be able to find it easily on YouTube, so I just watch funny videos for an hour till I realize I want to go to bed. The same thing happens with having the TV on in the background. Fifteen minutes into an episode I’ll end up watching a completely different series on Hulu. Sigh. I think my attention span gets shorter and shorter every day.
- Alyson
thanks for procrastinating! Oops -- we mean participating :)
Well, I have no idea what Farmville is, but i do know about procrastinating. My way is to say "I'll do that tomorrow", and then when I do think of it tomorrow, I say, "I'll do that tomorrow". And then it's like 3 weeks later, and I'm like "Crap!! I was supposed to do that 2 weeks ago!".
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