Procrastination affects the best of us — but how can you tell if you’re under its dreaded curse?

This post is for any writers seeking a diagnosis on their procrastination levels. If this sounds like you, please call a doctor immediately.

Are you procrastinating?

You sit at your desk to write, and then…

1. You find yourself reading nail polish ingredients.
2. You examine everything else on your desk except for your laptop and/or notebook.
3. You realise the messiness of your desk is a distraction and tidy everything away.
4. Making tea or coffee is all of a sudden essential.
5. You may as well do the dishes while the kettle boils.
6. You decide that now is the best time to clean your keyboard. With a toothpick.
7. You finish your tea and make a sandwich.
8. You look up the origin of sandwiches on Wikipedia.
9. Twitter is somehow open despite a personal promise not to use social media.
10. You spend several minutes reading a blog about procrastination.
11. You write this post.

Oops… guilty as charged.

(Psst! I shall be without internet for a couple weeks, so if I don’t reply don’t get offended!)