Because we ALL have days like this…
- Sit down at your desk
2. Check your calendar and confirm it’s time to write
3. Open a blank document
4. Look at the blank page
5. Review your writing plan (if you have one)
6. Decide your writing plan is dumb OR Feel certain that if you had made a writing plan it would have been perfect
7. Look at the blank page
8. Go back and reorganize the document folder
9. Open Facebook
10. Scroll
11. Scroll
12. Comment
13. Scroll
14. Like
15. Scroll
16. Love
17. Scroll
18. Get a glass of water
19. Sit down at your desk
20. Sip water while staring at the blank document
21. Click over to email
22. Click back to document
23. Go make a cup of tea
24. Go to the bathroom
25. Put on some laundry
26. Stare out the window at the back garden that needs work
27. Go back to your desk and stare at the blank document
28. Write 1 crappy sentence.
29. Delete it
30. Remember you made tea
31. Find your now cold tea in the kitchen
32. Put on the kettle to make a new cup of tea (microwaving tea is just wrong)
33. Look in the fridge and put a few things on the grocery list
34. Go back to your desk with your tea and look at that damn blank document
35. Sip your tea while staring at that damn blank document
36. Check Facebook
37. Scroll
38. Scroll
39. Scroll
40. Go take a shower
41. Change the laundry, finding a load of dry clothes in the drier
42. Fold the clothes
43. Make lunch
44. Eat lunch
45. Go back to your desk and open up your email
46. Answer a couple emails, now you’re starting to feel productive
47. Click back over to the blank document
48. Pretend to tap your fingers on the keyboard
49. Open up Facebook
50. Scroll
51. Scroll
52. Scroll
53. Close your laptop
54. Stare out the window at the front garden that needs work
55. Check Instagram
56. Hit the yoga mat/Head out for a walk/Have a dance party
57. Open your laptop
58. Look at the blank document
59. Close your laptop
60. Walk away.
61. Commit to writing tomorrow.
The struggle is real.
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And then you finally get a piece written but your 5 year old throws a fit when you’re trying to edit and publish…
The struggle is so very real.
