Here's why I haven't been revising my manuscript...honest!
I am the Queen of Excuses when there is a task looming that I don't want to do. Yeah, I know some of you out there are probably thinking, "No, I am the Queen of Excuses." But you are not. Sorry. This is my kingdom created by the hands of my own procrastination and perfectionism and thus you might be princesses, but I AM THE QUEEN.
I have a memoir in desperate need of some re-writing. But I am in love with it's sister the sequel and, I am just going to come out and say it, I don't want to go back to the first one. Oh, I will...eventually.... After I work my way through the following list of excuses.
1. The planets are not aligned correctly and it is not a leap year. You can't expect me to start work in an odd numbered, non-leap year with incorrectly aligned planets now can you?
2. That black cat just crossed the street... or was that next door's budgie(bird) ? Should the budgie walking across the street bother me? It does. I think I'll go have a little lie down.
3. The ice-cream truck is here. I have to have ice-cream. Why can't I have ice-cream? Why do you want to make me cry? I'll start straight after the ice-cream...
4. I need to bath the kids. Then I need a bath. Really. I'll be ready to start work after a bath. The hot water is very therapeutic and then after the bath.... and painting my toe nails and a glass of wine, oh and cheese, cheese goes nice with wine... do I have any cheese? I'm just going to check. What was I saying I was going to do after the bath?
5. The dishwasher needs emptying. I should really empty it before I start writing. I mean what if husband wants, say, a nice clean cup, but it's still in the dishwasher? Hey? What then? I'll just go empty it... and re-stack it and put another load on and mop the floors and, goodness, look at the mess the boys left after dinner...
6. Is that the time? Oh, I can't start that late in the evening! I mean, I'd get tired after one measly hour of re-working that writing and, gosh, I feel tired already. My eyes will be fresh in the morning. I'll start then.
7. Well, I didn't mean first thing in the morning. I have to take my son to school. Then straight after I'm going to open up that file and...
8. Did I feed the dog? She looks hungry... that file can wait just a second...
9. Speaking of hungry...when did I last eat? Breakfast seems like ages ago.... I'm just going to have an early lunch and then after lunch...
10. Is that a cat across my keyboard? Oh, so cute! I couldn't possibly wake it up. I'll just wait a little bit longer...
So, the long and the short of that one is, feed the dog, move the cat, take lunch to the keyboard, put toddler down for a nap and START WORK TAB!
PS- It's not my cat. It's not my photo. My uncle sent it to me. Cute though. I'll get to writing after this blog post. Or maybe I'll just go read your blogs first... What did Suzanne post about? That looks interesting. Just a quick comment.... I have time for a few quick comments....
So, princesses or princes out there... ever, ever felt this way???
