Just as an experiment, I think I’m going to start keeping track of the days I don’t work on my fiction and the reasons/excuses I give myself … plus some possible solutions. Maybe that will help me pinpoint my roadblocks and map my way around them.

This morning: Slept too late.

Possible solutions:

  • Set your alarm clock! (Duh.)
  • Also, go to bed early enough the night before so that you have a full night’s sleep. This isn’t 1979 and your college dorm room at Ole Miss, you know.
  • Um, go to BED the night before instead of falling asleep stretched out on the sofa. That way, in the morning you’re near the — oh, I don’t know — actual alarm clock.
  • When you fall asleep on the sofa and wake up beside the cats with the TV remote pressed into your cheek in the pre-dawn hours, then drag your butt to bed and set the clock for an early morning writing session, OR go ahead and get up to write. Going back to sleep and dreaming about writing? It doesn’t count.

Tsk-tsk note to myself: Seriously? You lazy ass.

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