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- Open up a Pages/Word/TextPad/Whatever document.
- Stare at the screen for a minimum of thirty minutes.
- Scroll through your Twitter stream to look for “inspiration.” *wink wink*
- Check your e-mail. And tumblr. And Facebook.
- Open up that blank document again.
- Realize you’re hungry and eat breakfast.
- Watch the newest episode of Project Runway while eating breakfast.
- Get totally distracted and watch the full hour-long episode instead of just fifteen minutes like you planned.
- Stare at that blank document for another fifteen minutes while internally brainstorming some blog post ideas.
- Start daydreaming about the ending of that Project Runway episode, instead.
- Remember that reading is awesome inspiration and pick up a book.
- Read ten chapters before realizing that you still haven’t written that post.
- Read one more chapter.
- Just one more.
- Okay, THIS is the last one, I swear.
- Wait. The author KILLED OFF YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER? Throw the book aside and sit down in front of that blog post again.
- Stare for another ten minutes.
- Remember you haven’t done laundry in too long and get that done.
- Oh, and you really should do those dishes while you’re at it.
- Is that a spot on the counter? Maybe you should clean that, too.
- Sit down at your computer and actually start brainstorming for that blog post.
- Oh look! Your CP sent you another chapter. Time for reading!
- You’re hungry again. You can’t really be expected to write a decent blog post on an empty stomach, can you? Eat lunch.
- Realize that a new episode of Vikings is on Hulu, too. Watch that as you eat.
- This episode is ridiculously good and there’s only another half hour left. What’s another half hour? Finish the episode.
- Rage about the end of the episode as you sit down to write that post again.
- Your phone is ringing. You should get that.
- Talk to your grandma for five minutes. Act surprised when those five minutes turns into an hour.
- Open up that document and put it in fullscreen mode. You’re getting serious now. It’s time to actually write this darned post.
- Stare.
- Stare.
- Stare.
- Stare.
- Get frustrated and write a post about how not to write a blog post.
...Wait.
