In school I was always a procrastinator. There's nothing like a deadline to light a fire under my ass, and deadlines were my motivators for essays and projects. The funny part is, I do better work when I'm pressed for time. I focus better and work harder and for some reason brilliant things end up finding their way into my writing when I'm facing a nearing deadline. Anytime I worked ahead in school and got my essays and projects done ahead of schedule I always received worse grades than when I whipped something up the night before. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if I'm the only one who finds creativity and motivation under pressure. Perhaps this is why my new buddy system is working so effectively. Knowing I need to have a chapter done each Friday really forces me to pry myself away from the television and just write for a few hours each week. I realize a few hours a week isn't much, but when you work full time it's a lot.
Speaking of my weekly deadline, I am behind this week. The first two weeks of Leah and my buddy system I wrote about 1-2 pages per day and was done by Friday morning. This week I am seriously behind schedule. I've only written two solid pages and it's Wednesday evening...actually it's an hour away from being Thursday morning...ACK! But it's all okay. Because this means the fire under my ass is about to be lit and I will get some good writing done, even if I finish my chapter by Friday afternoon instead of morning. It was only a matter of time until my procrastinating side came out I suppose.
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