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Hello, I Am The Queen Of Procrastination.  It's A Pleasure To Meet You

9/16/2012

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Yes, I admit it, I am the reigning Queen of Procrastination!  I have all these great ideas for new books and just can't seem to make myself sit down and actually do anything with them.  All hail the queen!

I could lie to myself and say that the reason I'm procrastinating is that I'm just a touched burned out after finishing the last book in the Spiritus series, but that's not really the case.  If I'm really honest, I procrastinate because I'm afraid.

That may sound a little crazy, but it's true.  I'm a little scared to dive into another novel.  What if it's not as good as the Spiritus series?  What if I can't EVER be that good again?  And by "good" I don't mean that it's some literary masterpiece.  I mean "good" in the way that it made ME feel writing it.  I mean "good" in the way the characters seemed like old friends.  What if I can't ever get that again?

Part of me wants to just toss out the ideas of outlines and go back to just writing whatever comes to me.  I definitely get much more writing done that way, and it is the way that I wrote most of the Spiritus books, but then there is always so much to go back and fix!  If I go by a rigid outline, then it takes some of the fun out of it and I find myself struggling with each scene.  Again, is this a real worry or am I just making excuses?

So I ask my fellow writers, do you procrastinate out of fear or am I alone here?  Does that make me the Queen of Procrastination, the Queen of Denial, or the



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Noah Burke link
10/2/2013 07:43:33 pm

Great blog, enjoyed browsing through the site

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