The Fine Art of Procrastination

[amymyoung]

Originally published at Amy M. Young. Please leave any comments there.

I'm supposed to be working on a novel right now. Instead I'm still poking at my site and fiddling around on social media. Any excuse to not do anything that I'm supposed to right? 

In reality, I've been working on the site before I was even supposed to be up and working on writing, and it's just not ended yet. It's a constant hamster wheel of making sure things work.  I've also the usual tasks in keeping a household together to do, and right now, that's more of a challenge as everyone comes to grips with the loss of Ayesha. It goes straight to your heart when you have to wash the dish that she used for eleven years and know that she's not going to be calling for her food anymore. She was a big part of our family and that wound will take time to heal. I'm also trying to marshal my thoughts on what I'm working on into some semblance of order. I'm used to writing when the urge hits, not putting time into thinking of ideas and then working them out. I've had to change as I couldn't keep track of what I was doing anymore, and the feeling of being overwhelmed made it impossible for me to do anything. Right now I'm trying to find a character profile sheet that doesn't make me want to stab it to death by being too vague or overy specific. Unfortunately, some of the nuances of my characters don't fit on paper well, and new ones always come up. Once I have found one, or if I have to create one, I'll post it in a resources post.  Helping others is a good thing, right?