Jenna Blum Quotes

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.

I'm the type of person that if I put it off, I'll forget about it.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.