Procrastination on a Novel is Sooo Easy...

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
~George Claude Lorimer

This past week and a half I've managed to cross the 56,000 word mark from where I started around 53,000 words.

Yes, for those of you doing the math I didn't quite keep up with the eensy weensy 400 words a day goal. Ah, how quickly we fall!


Although it feels really good to be back at the novel again. There's a deeply satisfying feeling that comes from putting some words down on paper, or laptop as it were. That book just niggles at the back of my mind until I do something about it, so it's actually a kind of relief when I finally sit down and type on it. Hmmm...despite avoiding my fiction like the plague sometimes.

What is it about writing that we feel we must do and yet we do everything we can think of to avoid it each day? Maybe all writers are sado-masochists.