I'm doing #WritingMonth (aka #NaNoWriMo (#FuckAI) aka #NovelNovember) atm and something that keeps coming back to me was the posthumous biography about #TerryPratchett written by his assistant Rob, who said something like "somehow, against all odds, the writing got done, despite the immense amount of 'mucking about' we did".

I am a divil for #procrastiwork, and I've actually been letting myself enjoy it. Just jumped into my cloud backup setup for my VPS and cleaned it up, removing all the caches and logs, deleting backups for services I'm not using anymore, backing up stuff I've recently spun up (like this #GoToSocial service). I had been putting that shit off for months, but put a deadline in front of me and suddenly it's the most important thing in the world. But then when it was done, I sat down and wrote for quite a while, until I took a break, and now here I am posting through it (but after my snack, I'll be getting back to it).

My day job is not often stressful, but it demands a lot of context-switching and reactivity. A lot of "eeeep, guess my entire day is calls" kinda days. It's nice to have time set aside for a commitment (writing this fucking book) and to indulge in a little bit of misspent motivation making other things better too.

#PTerry #Writing

Opened my Proofreading Pro course to keep working on it. Immediately saw pace stats. Went down a rabbit hole to make this graphic. Got a more pressing deadline. Closed the course file. #procrastiwork

@andrioid I agree. I'd have to admit I'm a chronic yak shaver, and it's only one of many forms of #ProcrastiWork I indulge in (arsing about on the #fediverse all day is another one ;) I'd say what whether or not that yak is worth shaving depends on how many people will benefit in future (including your future selves) from not that yak pre-shaved. If it's only useful to your current project, and there's a quicker solution, don't shave the yak. Otherwise, maybe it's worth it?