Day 7 – Procrastination Procrastination has always been my other middle name. I could have an assignment due two weeks from now and think about it every day and not have anything genuine come to mind. Nothing, nada. Then the day before I will bubble over with ideas and concepts and end up with a…
Procrastination seems to be a big issue for writers, even the ones in our group. Alma Fullerton, author of In the Garage, has written a nice article about procrastination. Yeah, I know, writers seem to like to write about it. But what is nice about this article is Fullerton also talks about what writers can…
Writing is what you do when you compose an email. Creating is what you do when you compose War and Peace. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the first resembles the second as the lightning bug resembles lightning. The movement from composing an email to composing War and Peace isn’t quantitative: it isn’t the process of stringing…