Procrastination seems to be a big issue for writers, even the ones in our group. Alma Fullerton, author of In the Garage, has written a nice article about procrastination. Yeah, I know, writers seem to like to write about it. But what is nice about this article is Fullerton also talks about what writers can do to battle it by looking at some of the common excuses.
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