My newest form of procrastinating from writing is browsing the website Duotrope's Digest. This free interactive database of literary venues tracks your submissions, describes and links to more than the usual literary journal suspects of all genres, has a powerful search engine, reports on response times, and washes your dishes while you surf.* It also allows you to pretend that you aren't procrastinating from writing. Hey, if my literary career is ever going to take off, I need to be organized about getting my work out there!
Not that I'm procrastinating or anything. In the time I had allocated to writing chapters 2 and 3 this month, I managed to knit and felt a really cool pair of slippers and watch six year's worth of The Sopranos. That's productive, right?
*Note: dish washing not available on all browsers.
It's as productive as me watching two years of Grey's Anatomy, reading about 10 Robert B. Parker (aka Spencer for Hire) novels, and working on a cross stitch I started in 1998 while watching the fifth season of Northern Exposure.I'm pretty sure a hell of a lot gets done while one works on one's thesis. It just doesn't happen to be the thesis itself. Oh well.
Posted by: Sassy | February 27, 2007 at 08:59 AM
(Dang...tried to set the dishwashing function but it just spewed out hot water and ream of rather unpleasant adjectives.)
Procrastination is a necessary part of the creative process...at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. (Glad you're working on the novel...I can't wait to read it!!)
Posted by: Kat | March 11, 2007 at 06:38 PM