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# Do You Procrastawrite
- URL: https://justincox.com/blog/2022/11/do-you-procrastawrite/
- Published: 2022-11-15T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-16T23:28:46.000Z
- Description: This Week In Writing, we talk about procrastination and everything we do instead of writing.
- Author: Justin Cox
- Tags: Craft, #This Week In Writing, This Just In, Life, #nanowrimo

A few weeks ago, [I asked](https://writingcoop.substack.com/p/get-ready-for-nanowrimo-1378265) how people were preparing for NaNoWriMo. Reader Teresa said she was ready so long as she didn’t give in to procrastiwriting. I love this idea and realized I do it **all* the time.

I don’t know if there’s an official definition of procrastiwriting, but I’m going to make one up and we’ll all accept it as truth (**hopefully Teresa thinks this definition is accurate*):

> **pro·cras·ti·wri·ting*: (noun) the action of writing everything and anything except what you should be writing

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I keep a running list of planned topics for this newsletter and usually have ideas scheduled a month or two in advance — I say **planned* because I usually don’t have anything written that far in advance. Right now, I’m writing this a few days before you’re reading it, and only because I’m waiting for Hurricane Nicole to move through the area.

I’ve clearly procrastinated writing this newsletter, but I’ve still been **writing* a lot of stuff — just nothing I’m **supposed* to write.

****Do you procrastiwrite?** What are you writing instead of what you **should* be writing? Hit reply or respond in the comments.