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Authors and Procrastination
blgarver:
Yeah...that sounds about right.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kali on January 19, 2009, 04:04:57 PM ---Professionals procrastinate writing the next chapter by writing queries or outlines for the next book or doing the edits from the last book.
Wanna-bes (sorta like me) procrastinate by reading email and watching that episode of "Chuck" they missed and cleaning out the 'fridge.
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Um, lots of professionals procrastinate in the latter way as well, just not enough of the time to impair their career. (That much. Iain Banks was rather public about being a couple of months late on a novel a year or so ago because of Civilisation IV.)
It takes a certain kind of mental judo to convince yourself you really should be doing thing A in order to feel thing B is procrastinating and therefore be able to do it, and if you can swap thing A and B around with some frequency it helps a lot.
CrazyGerbilLady:
I'm in a rather different situation, being one half of a writing team. We keep each other from procrastinating too much. Helps that we have so much damn fun writing together. ;D
blgarver:
--- Quote from: neurovore on January 19, 2009, 05:01:35 PM ---Um, lots of professionals procrastinate in the latter way as well, just not enough of the time to impair their career. (That much. Iain Banks was rather public about being a couple of months late on a novel a year or so ago because of Civilisation IV.)
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That's amazing. I freaking love Civ 4.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: blgarver on January 19, 2009, 05:24:29 PM ---That's amazing. I freaking love Civ 4.
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Can't stand it myself; I'm a Civ 3 diehard.
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