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Dithering

The book is done, well the major work of the book is done for the moment... which is a good thing!!

But everything that's piled up around my house and my office no longer has an excuse for being put off.

Bills to be paid and organized, house to be cleaned, laundry to be done, yard work to be attended to, desk to be sorted through, websites to be updated, websites to be created, email to sort through, and so on, and so on... and that's only the non-writing stuff. 

The writing stuff is even more endless... organizing the stuff from the book I just got done, so it will be readily on hand when I need to reference it for the next six stories.  Beginning to put the backstory from the next stories onto paper, so I can begin to build characters and plots.  The next heroine is already talking to me and told me some neat things about herself this morning.  Plus I have a completed manuscript that needs to be revised, so I need to reacquaint myself with that story. Plus... plus... plus...

So much needs to be done that I don't have any idea where to start, and I'm reading instead of doing anything useful.  I get angry at myself and say that I'll go down and do X... but I get down to my office and see thae Y needs to be done before X, but there's also A, B and C that need to be done so which is more important?  They are all important, so I don't know which to do... and I go back up to read some more.

To stop the dithering, I need to make a to-do list, with things broken down into do-able steps, then prioritize the list... and since I can't face that... I think I'll go back up and read some more.  :-)

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