1. This blog, Twitter, and email to friends, writers, fans, just about anybody actually
2. Checking my Amazon ratings
3. Planning my next classes
4. Planning marketing campaigns on loose bits of paper and then losing them
5. Going on writing courses
6. Organising my teaching files
7. Reading 'how to' creative writing books
8. Researching topics just in case I might use them in a novel
9. Reading around the background to the novel I'm writing
10. Travelling to the locations of the novel
But actually, I did need to go to Rome three times on research trips for A Single to Rome... Other useful displacement activities involve:
1. Walking the dog
2. Watching 'Bargain Hunt'
3. Making cups of tea
4. Laundry
5. Eating biscuits
6. Visiting my mother
7. Doing Sudoku
8. Tidying up after my daughter
9. Looking at houses for sale on the Internet
10. Shopping for the perfect foundation
With all these essential activities to do, it's incredible I ever get anything written at all.
