This month I look at procrastination as part of the writing process. I consider both the micro and macro ways it shows up in our specific projects, our creative process and our life as an artist.

I speak about:

Shame and the procrastination loop.

Worrying, avoiding and anxiety’s relationship to procrastination.

The desire to do something that we love beautifully.

Delaying moving from one phase of a creative process to the next.

Journaling as a tool to discover which part of yourself is procrastinating; the human, the artist or the project

Artistic detachment as a cause of procrastination.

Creative scar tissue from past projects.

Feeling behind - as a result of procrastinating as well as a cause of procrastination. As well as the loop of procrastinating, feeling behind, getting stressed, then procrastinating because facing that we’re ‘behind’ is too painful.

References:

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Playwright’s Process Podcast Episode 15 'The Artist's Way' Weeks 1-4

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