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?
