Sunday 6 September 2009

Top 10 Displacement Activities

Ten things you find yourself doing when you should be working on a short story or novel:

1. browsing the Internet
2. reading
3. watching telly
4. playing a computer game
5. alphabetising your book-shelves
6. re-tagging your MP3 collection
7. daydreaming about the short story or novel you're going to write
8. thinking up a top ten list of something
9. housework
10. writing blog posts about displacement activities...

2 comments:

Mark Newton said...

Brilliant - I've done 1,2,3, 6 and 9 already...

Kay Sales said...

Speaking from experience... although how no.9 made it on the list, I'll never know....