My critique partner, Eli Godbolt, said he was going to dedicate this past Monday and Tuesday to writing and writing only. I was inspired. I had to work at the stupid bookstore on Monday, but I vowed to do some serious writing on Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather was supposed to be gorgeous and my whiteboard was chock full of chapter outlines.
Let’s do this! Right?
Jordanna, please meet the overly played out phrase “Epic Fail.”
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See, what had happened was…aka here’s what my brain said:
“The last chapter flowed so smoothly because you wrote it all down in longhand first. We should do that this time. After we check our Twitter notifications.”
“Oh dear, we forgot to mention Lyla’s husband in that chapter. Remember? Now we have to check Facebook.”
“Well now the chapter is way too long. We should split it up into two chapters. But first, when was the last time you hit refresh on your email?”
“Hungry! You know that pumpkin cake we make? We should try that with those overripe bananas on the kitchen table.”
“We should check Pinterest! Right now!”
“Okay, we’ll start writing. But first we should take a few artsy photos of our notebook with Instagram.”
“Our nail polish is chipped. We should take it off.”
“Okay, we’re typing. You know what would be cool? If we could find something like Lyla’s driftwood coffee table on Pinterest. Let’s go look!”
“It’s been a while since we checked Facebook and Twitter. I’m just saying…”
“Our writing is awesome. So much better than that crappy book we’re reading. We should actually just hunker down and finish that and get it over with.”
“The cat knocked our thesaurus off the table. It’s out of reach. We can’t do a read-through of this chapter right now.”
“Let’s go write by the river! … What’s that guy doing? Look at that sail boat! We want a kayak! Oooh a butterfly! Aagh, a mosquito. Is that guy staring at us? Hasn’t he ever seen anyone take pictures with Instagram before? Ugh!”
“We want beer!”
“Dammit, there’s no beer in the house.”
“We should go grocery shopping. Wait, we don’t really need anything. We should go buy new clothes for our upcoming vacation though. Right now, before all the summer clothes are gone.”
“We still want beer! Beer helps us write!’
“We should bring the laptop to the local craft beer restaurant and sit outside and write!”
“We have to take pictures of the laptop next to the craft beer with Instagram though.”
“Anything new with Facebook, Twitter, Email? Oh my God, we forgot WordPress! What are our hits? WHAT ARE OUR HITS???”
“Ooh someone liked our picture on Instagram! We should upload it on Facebook and Twitter!”
And this is how my two dedicated days of writing went. Somewhere in there I was also sick. Heaven forbid I should try to write between bouts of losing my cookies. (That’s a euphemism. It wasn’t like, “Oh no, where’d my snickerdoodles go?“) I know, so sad. I’m sure we all have days like this. Good news is I did manage to churn out two pretty good chapters. Just have to polish them up tomorrow.
That’s right, tomorrow. Shut up.
PS: My critique partner also failed. But his reasons were infinitely better so I won’t embarrass myself by including them here.
PPS: You guys should follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Just search Jordanna East. I’m saturating the social network. Boo-yah!
journeyofjordannaeast 
Didn’t you hear about the study that said procrastination is actually good for you?
I didn’t! Please elaborate!
I can totally relate! My muse has been on strike for the better part of a week. Not nice. Hopefully she will come back from the Labor Day weekend refreshed and ready to work. Ugh. Good Luck!!
Hmm, maybe it is just a weekend thing. In that case, I’m glad my muse decided to go on vacation now and not when I’m on vacation and need something to do while hubby sleeps on the beach.
This is hilarious. Welcome to my daily life. 🙂
I thought it was my daily life! Just this morning I whipped out my phone to type a note about a future blog post I wanted to do, saw I had a Pinterest notification, proceeded to check ALL of Pinterest for the next TWO HOURS, then forgot what my original note was supposed to be. *Sigh*
Every time I try to finish one of my work assignments I just end up on tumblr or watching Doctor Who lol
I stay away from tumblr at all costs!!
Yeah I’m starting to think I should too.
Or at least limit yourself to Mikayla is Not Impressed and anything making fun of Twilight and/or 50 Shades.
Ha ha ha, brilliant!
I can so relate to a lot of those thoughts, especially the ones where you just think you’ll check Twitter or Facebook. Thank heavens I’ve not joined Pinterest….yet 😉
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Pinterest will suck hours from your life. Refer to my reply to Whitney Rains’ comment where I describe this morning’s mishap.
And why do you think I’m NOT joining it lol 😉
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I originally joined to create a Blood in the Paint board…
I giggled throughout this. I did all of this a few days ago…I’m awful for procrastination at the best of times but it is always a million times worse when I’m nearing end of a stage of a project.
PS I’m following you on twitter now. 🙂
Glad I could make you giggle! I procrastinate whenever it’s time for me to start a new chapter. I just want to bask in the feeling of having just completed a chapter.
Thanks for following me on twitter. I’m funny there too.
Love it! It was like a peek inside my own head. Finally broke down, left the house, and went to McD’s of all places, at 10:00 P.M. to try to get something onto the screen. Oh, did you know McD’s has wifi? Yeah, not much got on the page there either.
Great post!
Lmao! When I went to the local craft beer restaurant the waitress told me the wifi password halfway through my stay even though I hadn’t ask. She was just trying to be helpful since she saw my laptop and notebook. Haha. Little did she know.