What You REALLY do when You Sit Down to Write

You have everything you need before you. Your pen and paper and a possible beginning to your book. But here's what really happens when you go to write:

1. Think about that beginning and decide to rewrite it.
2. Start to rewrite it and realize it's not going well. Throw up your hands and spin around in your chair.
3. Realize the foreshadowing might not even be needed because you're not sure if this draft of your book will even end that way.
4. Grab every pen you have nearby that you think you like and start testing them out by rewriting the same poorly written sentence of the foreshadowing scene over and over, each with a different pen. Realize you like the way one pen writes better, but like the feel of the barrel of another better. Ponder if you can trade out the ink but realize an ink cartridge from a capped pen wouldn't work in a clicky pen.
5. Wonder if the pen you passed up in the store because it was too expensive wouldn't be the greatest pen ever and try to come up with a good reason to go get it just to try it out against your other pens.
6. Go get snacks and a drink and sit back down. Think some more.
7. Come up with a possible starting sentence.
8. Check Facebook because someone might have posted something neat.
9. Look back at your writing and turn around again.
10. Ponder that sentence you came up with and wonder if it's good enough to be a starting sentence.
11. Check another website to see if anyone has commented on a photo you posted. They haven't.
12. Check Facebook again because someone might have posted something important. Nope.
13. Stare at the two pens you have in a face off and think about the pen you didn't buy. Ponder the idea of being able to just buy ink cartridges for the pen if it needs new ink and consider the pen some more.
14. Text your mom back after she finally gets back to you after an hour.
15. Get ready to write.
16. She texts again. You respond.
17. Realize it's dinner time and you get up to go heat up the oven.
18. Think it would be funny to blog about the real writing process.
19. Oven beeps and you realize now you actually have to fix dinner.
20. Realize you forgot that great starting sentence because you never wrote it down.

And that, is actually how you write. :-)  Okay, I'll admit it's not a great way to write, but hey! It's certainly a great way to procrastinate while thinking about writing the entire time.