- Watch Dancing with the Stars
- Watch House
- Wait to go to the gym until after Family Guy is over (even though you've already seen the episode three times), so that by the time you get back it will be too late to get any writing done
- Worry about your cat's health without actually making any decisions about what to do (it also helps to feel guilty about thinking about your novel when your cat is having health problems)
- Create a sountrack for your novel
- Download music for your already overfull iPod
- Spend time on the weekend (ideal writing time) screwing around on the internet
- Jam your Google Reader so full of stuff you only have a marginal interest in reading so that it takes about 30 minutes a day to clear it all out
- Two words: Perez Hilton
- Grow your hair so long it takes 20 minutes a day to contend with it
- Play Guitar Hero (it's important to replay songs you've already played 10 times at the same difficulty level that you've already played 10 times)
- Get interested in politics (the ultimate time-waster)
- Bake cookies, even though you are on a diet
- Perfect your Sarah Palin impression even though you don't have any Halloween plans (you betcha)
- Decide that you really need to re-read everything you've written before writing anymore, and follow the above reccomendation to ensure you don't have time to get that reading done
- Work in an industry that is requiring mandatory overtime when just about every other employer in the country is laying people off.
- Own a home, if you are the only person in that home it's a guarantee that you will be so busy with the myriad responsibilities of home ownership to do anything else
- Work more overtime
- Watch Antiques Roadshow
- Work more overtime
- Resurrect your old blog
November is National Novel Writing Month. If you don't wish to participate, see the list above.
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