Confessions of a Chronic Procrastinator: My Publishing Journey
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I call it procrastinating. But I'm not sure that's the right word for it.
What I actually do is squirrel around in the hamster wheel for a while — wash some dishes, do some laundry, write another book — while whatever problem I'm avoiding works itself out in the back of my brain. I'm never not thinking about it. I just don't always have a solution yet, or a path to follow. So I wait until I do.
Marketing was like that. I tried it early on and couldn't get my footing — the concepts were slippery, the language was foreign, and none of it mapped neatly onto what I was actually doing as an author. So I stepped back. I wrote. I read. I asked questions. I let it percolate.
And then, eventually, it started to make sense. Not all of it — marketing in this world is genuinely not easy, and I won't pretend otherwise. But enough of it that I could start moving forward instead of spinning in place.
I'm not sure I was ever really procrastinating. I think I was just waiting for my brain to finish its laundry cycle.