So. I've started yet another of a steadily growing collection of documents in my file folder I call 'procrastination novels'.
It works like this: You start a project. Get really, really invested into properly planning and editing and preparing that project, and then-
You open a new document, you dump your half-baked, barely thought-out, derivative, cheesy, unoriginal junk food ideas into that document, just two pages of space to spam out all the stuff you don't want tainting your primary project.
Somehow, whenever you hit a wall, you end up walking around outside in your yard, or staring at your youtube playlist, or rewatching a show you haven't seen in six years, and something clicks.
You've been spending more time actually writing in your junk food document than you have been in your main project document. You're having more fun and receiving more muses writing something you've self-identified as being secondary and lesser, something you didn't plan the future of or have any intention of it being a proper story at all.
Congratulations! You've got a procrastination novel! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
It works like this: You start a project. Get really, really invested into properly planning and editing and preparing that project, and then-
You open a new document, you dump your half-baked, barely thought-out, derivative, cheesy, unoriginal junk food ideas into that document, just two pages of space to spam out all the stuff you don't want tainting your primary project.
Somehow, whenever you hit a wall, you end up walking around outside in your yard, or staring at your youtube playlist, or rewatching a show you haven't seen in six years, and something clicks.
You've been spending more time actually writing in your junk food document than you have been in your main project document. You're having more fun and receiving more muses writing something you've self-identified as being secondary and lesser, something you didn't plan the future of or have any intention of it being a proper story at all.
Congratulations! You've got a procrastination novel! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
