- Sit down
- Realize I should turn on computer
- Fiddle with every object around my writing space
- Turn on computer
- Wander away while computer is booting up
- Come back after computer has booted up and gone to sleep
- Jiggle mouse
- Jiggle mouse some more
- Impatiently turn monitor off and back on again
- Sign in
- Wander away while computer is logging in
- Come back to computer, stare at desktop, trying to remember what I was doing
- Open some folders
- Nope, just pictures of kittens I saved from the internet in there
- Remember that all my work is in Google Drive and wouldn’t be in any folder on my desktop
- Click browser shortcut
- Impatiently click browser shortcut 20 more times
- Computer freezes
- Wander away while computer is frozen
- Come back to find 20 browser windows open
- Consider navigating to Google Drive
- Checking Twitter real quick won’t hurt
- The world needs to know my feminist interpretation of Jurassic World in 140 character installments
- I wonder what Tumblr has to say about this
- Return from Tumblr fugue state two hours later
- Navigate through Google Drive to the folder where I saved my current project
- I should look at Facebook real quick, just in case I forgot any events I needed to be at two weeks from now
- Message friend “have you seen the new captain awkward, everyone is wrong about everything”
- Emerge from Facebook fugue state an hour later
- Check clock, decide it’s not too late to write something
- Open HabitRPG
- Stare at HabitRPG daily task “Write 100 words” real hard just in case it makes you feel inspired
- Try really, really hard to feel inspired
- Open document
- Bathroom break
- Tea break
- Vacuuming break
- Complain to boyfriend about how busy I am
- Another tea break
- Return to document
- Stare at document
- Tea break
- Teak break
- Tea break
- Slowly type exactly 100 words
- Suddenly get inspired, realize the solution that will fix all this story’s problems
- Realize it’s bed time
Repeat tomorrow