The Downward Spiral Forum I am most pissed off by...

Try to keep this writing related, but hey, if yer pissed and got something to say, hey, let loose and giver s**t. What pisses me off about writing and stuff? My muse showing up late is always a bummer. LMFAO. Seriously, people who say stuff sucks but they aren't even intelligent enough to say why.

I agree with you on the last bit, altho I don't get a lot of that. I hate how much of a procrastinator I am, I get pissed at my own laziness a lot. I hate how I have to have things perfect in order to get writing done, and how it takes me about a whole week to finish one damn chapter. And if its a love scene, it takes even longer....the imagery tends to distract me.....and I must give in to my own mounting desires.....lol. Yea, pretty much. Writing is a very slowwwwww process for me, and its annoys the f**k out of me.

I can relate to that. Although, it dosnt take me a week to right a chapter, but a month. I usually get distracted and right poems, if its not that Im trying to fix my printer. Some of my poems are pretty corny though. They were for poetry contests.

Yes, seriously, my procrastination. Or the fact that I am often a ridiculous perfectionist about my stuff...I'm so friggin anal sometimes I swear. It can be extremely frustrating. I started writing a depression memoir over five years ago and I am nary halfway through it. Hopefully I will be able to start posting it here so I can get some [more] feedback and finish the damned thing!

Lately (the past couple years or so) I have realized that it won't belong before I die. I am 55 and not in good health. I take eight different medicaitons everyday to keep me going in one way or another. As a retired nurse I know that not only is my body going to give out because of my conditions in the next 5 to (if I'm lucky) 10 years but also the side effects of the artificial chemistry that are cursing through my organs will wear down my physical being .

I always felt procrastination was a sort of art form. I mean by that; a person can push off everything onto tomorrow the best they can. Like: putting off dieting, exercise, cleaning the house, picking up the cleaning or mail, and especially creating and producing whatever form of art their particular being has inside of them. But now I know it means they will have nothing to leave behind.

I am not a religious person therefore what I believe a person exists as long as their art does. Think of the ancient civilizations that have decorated pots and jewelry dug up. Those people still exist in museums or private collections.

So what I am trying to say is that procrastination has taken on a new meaning for me. It means the art that I leave behind will keep me alive in some way. Procrastination means I will not exist very long at all.

Joleen Dayton

Wow, Joleen, that's some deep stuff. I have two daughters and I feel like my writing is one more thing I can leave behind for them. To have such an understanding of what is going on and being able to reflect must be it's own kind of beauty.

Procrastination can be a wicked thing. How many people have left us with the golden book or the hit song still in their head?

I think Joleen would be with me when I say, GET IT OUT! WRITE! SOMETHING! ANYTHING! JUST WRITE! Quit reading this and go work on your book or poem or something. Go on, get going.