I’ve talked before about how the best way to protect
yourself from failure is to never try. You are absolutely guaranteed to never
experience any rejection if you never put yourself out there for others to see
(and all too often, criticize).
Which brings me to today. I have cleaned my work area, swept
the floor, answered every email, done the dishes and cooked every breakfast the
people in my house are going to eat for the next week. Yeah. All of that.
I’ve spent the whole week thinking about how much writing I
was going to get done, but instead I have done LITERALLY every other chore in
the house. I’m avoiding it. I’m worldbuilding. I’m plotting, I tell myself, I
need time to think. Okay, that might be true, self, but it looks like, from
over here in the no word count land, that you are actually doing the thing where
you are avoiding writing.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I have an idea for
a novel, and I LOVE it. As in, I love it so much it might just break my heart. I
love the idea so much, I might just never write it because the book it will
become, no matter how good, will never feel like the shiny thing in my
imagination. If I could have one wish, it would be to be able to make books
fell the same way the idea feels in my head. It just doesn’t happen. Well, I
should say, It hasn’t happened yet.
Am I the only one, or do you procrastinate putting pen to
paper when you have an idea you’re in love with?
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