- Laundry
- Dishes
- Taken on new paying projects — not necessarily well-paying, and not necessarily fun, and not necessarily platform-building
- Read other people’s novels for inspiration
- Read the New Yorker for instruction
- Read magazines for distraction
- Pondered whether I should use laptop or paper and pen
- Pondered rewriting chapter 1 already, though I’m only on chapter 8
- Pondered the length of my nails
- Cut my nails
- Swept the floor
- Scooped the cat box
- Taken pictures of the cat while he’s sleeping
- Taken pictures of the dog while we’re walking
- Wrote about the dog for the Active Dog Chronicles
- Spent extra time volunteering at the Oregon Humane Society
- Harrumphed at my husband for playing video games for hours
- Played Guitar Hero with my husband for hours
- Worried that I’d never make up for paying clients who dropped off the face of the earth
- Worried that I’d never get out from under this stack of deadlines
- Watched A River Runs through It for research
- Watched Top Gear because it’s work-related
- Called my mom
- Called my grandmother
- Updated my Facebook status
- Updated my Twitter status
- Looked for mentions of me on Facebook and Twitter
- Checked my website stats
- Took a nap
- Updated my blog with a list of things I have done to avoid working on this novel