This post being a prime example: how the hell do I deal with procrastination? Or rather, how do I make myself do something useful when I don't really want to?
For starters, setting myself challenges tends to work. NaNoWriMo was brilliant for making me actually write instead of procrastinating, as was April Camp and then my Daily Writing Challenge. However, in the lead up to July Camp, I'm finding myself struggling to write.
As a wonderful example, I spent about 4 hours on Sunday evening creating a beautiful (read: kinda rubbish) map of my new fantasy setting. It's got a lovely realistic coastline, mountain ranges, rivers, a few little towns and even a massive marsh. It didn't actually contribute anything to my planning because none of these landmarks have names, so I can't properly reference them in-universe.
What I should have been doing was creating some location appropriate placenames for things that'll be mentioned in the novel. I took one look at my list of possible roots and decided that, bugger it, I couldn't be arsed. Which means I should now be spending my lunch break doing it instead.
But I'm not. I'm writing this blog. This is a bad move, because I intend to start writing at midnight and other than a couple of countries, none of my places have names, I have no idea how far it is between important landmarks and [thing]. On top of this, I only have 25 days to complete July Camp because I'm spending the last week of the month (and the first two of August) in New Zealand. Argh.
Once I get into Camp proper, I'm pretty sure I'll be back into the swing of things, but until midnight... my brain won't focus. So, um, I'm totally going to spend the rest of my lunch break making up place names. Promise. Not browsing the NaNoWriMo forums. Of course not.
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Edit: turns out I had a fairly productive lunch break which is great. Apart from the fact that I forgot to add my notes to Dropbox so now I can't access my massive list of place name elements and Camp kicks off at midnight. Bollocks.
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