I think I get the sense (and it’s a character flaw I know) that I’m waiting for life to happen to me.
I’m also waiting for the editing of my novels to happen to me, the putting together of my Writing Tips book to happen to me and for everything important, generally, to happen to me.
Boy do I need a kick up the pants to happen to me!
Robert C Day 
I volunteer to give you a kick up the pants. 😜
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Well go on then. 😉
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You sure? It’s gonna hurt.
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I’m sure.
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Can’t bring myself to do it. Hurting you would be the same as hurting myself!
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Ah, but sometimes pain is the sweetest pleasure when it has a good outcome.
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True, but I don’t think that giving you sore … erm … you-know-what would result in a good outcome.
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Mayhaps you’re right.
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Phew! I’m saved from having to inflict pain on you! 😁
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… and (by extension) on yourself. 🙂
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Ganz genau.
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🙂
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As hard as I am on myself, I still can’t kick my own ass into gear
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Right. It’s not an easy thing to do. It’s almost as if I’m waiting for fate or God or some other outside force to intervene. It’s a funny place to be in.
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Ooh, ooh, I’ll do it! Then you can kick me!
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Right there with ya… *sigh*
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*sighs in harmony*
Ooo, that’d be a nice name for a story – ‘A Harmony of Sighs’. 🙂
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We have to edit our books first before we write another one to edit (teasing!)… #writerprocrastination LOL *smiles*
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Good plan. I should edit before I write too, but I enjoy writing more than I do editing. Still, I’ll get to it .., maybe tomorrow.
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I know…I’m sitting here trying to edit my book and then I have fifteen absolutely wonderful ideas for other books…and I get mentally and emotionally hooked and I want to start writing them. Yesterday, I was sitting there trying to (re)plot out my book so I could get a jumpstart on my revising/editing. “You know, editing really sucks,” I said to myself. *wry laugh*
You close to publication, yet?
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I’m as close as I let myself be, which is to say paralysed by the thought that people could judge me by one misspeled word.
You should write those ideas down, and then carry on with the editing. 🙂
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Yep, that’s what I’m trying to train myself to do…at least I stopped pacing yesterday or waiting for life to happen (temporarily)… *wry laugh*
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You’re doing good, my friend. I understand that you are already a published author, yes?
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Well, my poetry book is still in the very last stages…just approved the final proof two days ago…so, no, not technically…
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But soon. 🙂
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Will this be your first book out…?
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I published a children’s story to test the waters, but yes – when I get around to it, it will be my first novel.
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Nice…the book I’m working on will be my first one…rather late to get started, but…
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… you’re doing it anyway. And so you should! 🙂
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🙂
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Oh, and my poetry book is my publishing guinea pig…
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You know, I have no idea what a ‘publishing guinea pig’! At all. 🙂
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My practice/dry run…before I publish my full-length manuscript….make all the beginner’s mistakes with a shorter poetry book…in theory, anyway…
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I suppose then that the children’s story was my publishing guinea pig. 🙂
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I adopted a guinea pig, once.
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I ever did small pets. There were rabbits and dogs at various points, but nothing I got emotionally attached to.
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Wow. It’s my first time probably since I was a kid that I haven’t had a pet of some sort.
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Sorry – ever should have read never, but then again – rabbits and dogs are fairly small. You miss having a furry creature to stroke?
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Ack!
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Huh? What’s all the acking about? 🙂
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But, yes, I miss my cats and other sundry pets, very much.
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Then can you not get more? 🙂
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No, I have no money to adopt another cat. I had a cat (unneutered male) show up on my doorstep that I named Piglet but couldn’t afford to keep it. Luckily, a no-kill animal shelter took him in, but even though I didn’t let him in the house, I still got attached and it broke my heart that I couldn’t take him–especially since I just lost my last cat that I’d had since 2001. https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/38244729
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What a great name for a cat, though! 🙂 Sweet looking thing isn’t he.
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He is…very gentle and sweet. Maybe I’ll sell a kidney or something…
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Get those books out there and sell ’em. Write one about your work – the methods you use and how people can do it for themselves. 🙂
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I trust animals.
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Animals are pretty much without guile.
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It could be about lucid/shared dreaming… 🙂 synchronictiy and all that… (what do you usually dream about/)
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Travelling. And … well, just normal things really – scenes from my life. When I was in Continental Europe last week I had a spate of sex dreams, but I don’t have so many of those when I’m home. I guess my mind is either fairly chilled, or I do a lot of processing when I write and so there’s nothing much left to dream about. How about you?
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Oh, I dream every night. And really vividly though…I remember them pretty well. And I’ve even had a verified shared dream–resulting in a 4am phone call from a person I knew from the clubs right after the dream. Very strange, especially when I’m kinda a skeptic about these things.
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I want to believe, but I’m totally sceptical by now because I’ve never experienced such things. Perhaps tonight will be when it changes. 🙂
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Well, it was kinda freaky, actually…so maybe that’s a good thing!
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Okay, off to write…good luck with editing and lucid dreaming/walking through parallel dimensions. Come by and visit the Chaos Realm there…you might just find out my real name LOL (joke).
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Ah, that’s intriguing! I’ve looked in all the normal places for your name quite a few times, but never found it. I might just ring up your company and ask to speak to the boss. 😉
Good luck with the editing.
Laters.
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LOL that would be an expensive call…
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Still …
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Life will never happen for you gotta go out there and make it happen yourself!
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Very, very, very, very true. But it’s so darned hard!!
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Yeah it’s easier said than done
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Tips?
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Sorry are you asking me for tips?
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Sorry, yes. Do you have any tips on how to overcome chronic procrastination, Joyce? 🙂
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I think for me personally because I love music so much if I am struggling or procrastinating with getting things done I either tend to headphone or blast my favourite songs in order to block everything else out and just focus on the one task.
It may not work for everyone but for me its always a guarantee help!
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Sounds like a good tip, Joyce. I like me a little music every now and again. 🙂 Thank you.
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Welcome
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I intend to massage all the hard things with the oil of determination so that they will become soft and amenable to my machinations. 🙂
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