Writing Gets in the Way · 4 July 2026
Believe it or not, sometimes writing gets in the way of writing. At least it does for me.
There are times when I am supposed to write my blog post, but instead of writing it, I do some other writing. Like yesterday.
Yesterday, I was going to get my blog post ready for my #ThursdayThoughts preview, but instead I wrote a piece of fiction for DailyPrompt. Which is not a bad thing, mind you. Unless, of course, the piece is bad. It might have been, but I will let other people decide whether my stuff is good or not.
At any rate.
The thing is that sometimes I am just procrastinating and sometimes I just have something else that just needs to get written. There is some project or some prompt or some idea that just must get put down on paper. Or placed on the internet. Or somehow acknowledged that it is important even if I am not going to write it quite yet. Which is itself an interesting thought.
I know that thoughts and ideas are not beings. They have no life of their own. And yet, there are times when I wonder. I wonder how I get these ideas for writing. Sometimes, I just write about what has happened in my life. Like today. But there other are times when I get an idea for a story or blog post or poem or song or whatever sort of writing that will just not leave me alone. I need to get the idea or story or whatever writing out of my brain and into some sort of storage system. I need to put pencil to paper or fingers to keyboard or the idea will not leave me alone. Which is kinda what happened yesterday.
Yesterday, I was looking at the DailyPrompt prompts and found one that needed to be written. It might have even been the one that was for that day. I do not remember. In fact, I do not even remember what I wrote. Which is something that I often do. I write it and forget it. (Which is a completely different story.)
You might think that this is just a way to procrastinate, but I do not think so. That is what chess is for. If I want to proecrastinate, I just play chess. (Again. A completely different story.)
No. I was not procrastinating yesterday when I was writing for a prompt (even though I said above that I might have been). I just had an idea that had to be written. I could not get my blog post ready because I was writing something else. Which brings me back to the beginning (without that much substance in between).
There are times when one part of my writing life must get put on the back burner for a different part of my writing life. Sometimes my book writing or my prompt writing or some other sort of writing takes precedence over my blog writing. And that is okay. At least I am not just procrastinating. At least it is just one part of my writing getting in the way of another.
© 2026 Michael T. Miyoshi
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