{"id":1105,"date":"2017-06-06T05:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T05:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2017-06-06T05:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T05:43:31","slug":"6th-june-2017-my-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"6th June 2017 – My Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After the last couple of posts I have been trying to think on why I Procrastinate so much and it’s not because I don’t want to write, I want more than anything to see my books in the local Waterstones next to my favourite authors. To be able to leave work and write full time would be a dream come true. But instead of working towards that goal I am wasting time on games\/tv. So below is why I think I procrastinate.<\/p>\n

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  1. Distractions – I am luck enough to have an office in my house, but when you see the room there is stuff everywhere, but the distraction comes form the TV and the other things I do on the computer when I should be writing, I actually don’t know what I do with my time sometimes, I can be sat there for hours and when I look back to see what I have achieved there is nothing to say. Facebook, Twitter, You Tube etc. All easy to lose time in.<\/li>\n
  2. Fear – Probably the same thing most writers get and some never lose, the fear that what I am writing is pap, I completed my first novel in NaNoWriMo 2015, small at just over 50k but when I read it back it is terrible, I know that is the point of Nano, just to get something down then start with the rewrites and editing but still when I look at it, I shudder. I will rewrite it and release it at some later point at which time it will be classed as a prequel and origin story instead of where the story begins.<\/li>\n
  3. Research – Sometimes I think my brain decides to remember what it wants which is why I like to make notes. But one of the issues I have is not having a clue with some of the technical aspects. My Sci-fi universe is called Shattered Worlds. I have built up a list of races and technologies and have a basic map of the galaxy. This is what I want to use for all my sci-fi stories so I can tie them all in if I need to. The problem I have is justifying some of the tech or knowing what I can use that readers will like. What speeds to make my Hyperspace so the 100k diameter of the galaxy can be travelled. How big to make the ships, when I look at some books and they say the ship is 200 meters and has x inside, I find it hard to visualise these sizes so I am not sure how big to make the ships in my universe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    These are some of the reasons I procrastinate, and these are some of the hurdles I need to just jump. Crack on and do what I know I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After the last couple of posts I have been trying to think on why I Procrastinate so much and it’s not because I don’t want to write, I want more than anything to see my books in the local Waterstones next to my favourite authors. To be able to leave work and write full time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,112,135,17,8,78,132,96,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-books","category-fantasy","category-life","category-nano","category-nanowrimo-2","category-sci-fi","category-shattered-worlds","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}