Hi, my name is Kelly, and I have a filing problem.

Actually, that’s not true. I don’t have filing issues. I can file if I absolutely have to.

Unfortunately, I always have more paper to file than I have time to do it in. And, I have other priorities…so when I get squeezed for time, filing is the last thing I want to do. After a while, the piles get so numerous I shove them into boxes.

See the crazy notes I leave for myself? The note on the left-most box says, “Writing To-Do: Immediately.” The note on the box beside it says, “To Do by December 31, 2009.” Um…yeah.

I took these photos in December, but the boxes had been sitting there months before that.

I have whittled it down to two boxes. But that’s only because I’ve had to paw through the boxes several times in the last few weeks and I made some executive decisions to throw a bunch of stuff in the trash (which is much easier than filing). But the fact is:

I just don’t want to do it.

Every once in a while, that attitude spills into my writing.

In Chapter 10 of my WIP, there’s a particularly badly-written scene with some unbelievable dialogue that needs to be reconstructed from scratch. It’s full of archaic language and I’d bet a few “as you know, Bobs.”

It’s going to take some time. And I don’t want to waste it…even knowing that the scene can be a hundred times better.

I’ve procrastinated so long that I’ve already edited through Chapter 21. Imagine how anti-climatic it’ll be to get to “The End” and have to go back and edit something halfway through the book. I’m not looking forward to it. When I type “The End,” I want it to be the end.

So…I’m going to take care of it. Within the week.

Maybe after I tackle that scene, I’ll get up the gumption to finally get those boxes out of my office.

Won’t you join me? What have you been procrastinating about? If there’s nothing in your way…take care of it!