Harman has a post up on writing, and he writes, “Don’t go to the beach for all of July and then try to pull an all-nighter on July 30 to meet your monthly quota.”
But far worse than that is wasting all July still not writing, but still not enjoying yourself by going to the beach… There was a great interview this week (I forget the venue) on NPR with a novelist who was also a gamer, who said he would procrastinate every day and stalk around his bed at night with grand plans, all for the naught. He didn’t let himself leave the house (must work you know) but he also didn’t get his writing done… Far better to say you went to the beach than that you finally fixed all 30000 song titles in your Itunes…
PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR 