This month our theme is planning as those who attended my creative meet-up will remember, and my catch-up post last week touched on something else that goes hand-in-hand with that – procrastination. My warning was, don’t let all that planning up front mean you don’t make it to the page.
And yet… and yet…
I was chatting with my bestfriend, Jane, a couple of days ago and she asked me: ‘So what have you been up to? How’s work going?’
‘Well, I haven’t achieved much this week,’ I told her, despondently. ‘I’m procrastinating.’
‘Oh, Annie,’ she said, ‘do I need to remind you of your process?’
What she outlined for me was my writing process from start to finish, the hyper-focus on the interviewing process, sometimes even a great start out of the blocks, and then, a sort of chugging halt, as if this little engine inside me has run out of petrol and is limping down the road when it should be going at top speed towards its final destination i.e the deadline.
It is during this time that my house get…