Prompt: Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it?
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Procrastination is my key avoidance tactic for everything important and writing falls into that category.
Procrastination – or busyness – will protect me from all the monsters in my head: the chorus of self-doubters, the harsh critics, the if-it-isn’t-perfect-it-couldn’t-possibly-good-enoughs.
I’m so busy!
I have a full-time job,
a part-time job,
another quasi part-time job….
I haven’t got the time to write really good posts!
Social media is an amazing tool for distraction – I can look around the web “for ideas”, click refresh on Twitter to see what people are talking about, check in with my readers on Facebook and leave a blog comment.
Social media is part of blogging, right?
You have to be part of the conversation, right?
What it comes down to is this: I avoid getting quiet enough for my real writing, the juicy uncomfortable bits, to shine through.
Call it procrastination, but really it more like fear.
Or self-doubt.
Or perfectionism.
Will I be able to eliminate it?
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Is there something that gets in the way of what is important to you?
Today’s Prompt is from:
Author: Leo Babauta
focusmanifesto.com
@zen_habits
Teacher Goes Back to School 
I’ve noticed, as I read several of today’s posts, that fear and self-doubt are a very common response. Because of them, I try to post before I read anyone else’s response, too!
Since it seems you are doing your reverb 10 posts before you even get to the fricking classroom, I think you’ve got the whole procrastination thing licked. Give yourself a high five!
@mads: i am doing these early – before work – and before i see anyone else’s. less time to wring my hands and compare mine and over think and and and…
Ah yessss, social media. But, if we don’t Tweet, no one will see what we write, right???
@meredith: true that. it’s all that other time i’m mindlessly hitting the refresh button…
Can I just copy and paste this for my response to today’s prompt? Once again, we’re sharing a brain. <3
@ryan: yes, you may. although i thought your post was better than mine. good thing i didn’t read yours first or i wouldn’t have pushed publish on this one.