Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Pressfield on Procrastination

Novelist and blogger Steven Pressfield, in his marvelous book, The War of Art:

We don't tell ourselves, "I'm never going to write my symphony." Instead we say, "I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow."

2 comments:

Michy said...

Sounds about right. "Edit novel" is still on my list of things to do later this month. It may have started out on the list for another month, but...

Michael Wade said...

Michy,

I suspect that one is on quite a few lists. Perhaps "Edit five pages" might work. And then five more.

Michael