Update on NaNoWriMo and laziness

**Note: My apologies! After knowingly hitting the "Publish" button on my last two blog entries neither of them seemed to have gone live. I'm not sure if this was a Blogger error or my own personal error by exiting out of my browser too quickly afterwards but either way this is a major problem. Again, sorry about that and enjoy this and future posts! - NSL

Hey, this is my longest title ever. Go me!

After getting myself all worked up to start and (hopefully) finish NaNoWriMo, the first day of the month came and I didn’t start, due to being out of town for ILMEA Jazz. The second day came and I still didn’t start. Here I am, much later, and I haven’t gotten barely anything written. So much for my longwinded, get-myself-motivated post from last time. I enjoy writing but, as I’ve seen during this month, it’s hard to get myself mentally ready to write when you’re not already in the mood. After taking a few days off from motivation, the mood was gone, thus making me less excited about the process. I know I’m terribly lazy sometimes, and that’s the focus on the rest of this post.

I have a very specific time that I like to be productive. This doesn’t include school work because I like to get that out of the way as fast as I can, but if I’m working on a piece of music, an important email, practicing violin, mostly anything else, I will procrastinate that thing until the very last moment I’m able to do it. That is, unless I get in the mood to do that thing between the hours of 10pm and 1am.

I once spent that entire time practicing violin. It had been a long week, during sophomore year, and I was awake, so I got it out and just played. I write a lot, and I mean a lot, of music during that time because my brain decides that it’s just that time of the day.

However, if it’s not that time of the day, and I’m finished with homework or chores or anything else, I will become one of the laziest people on planet Earth. I will lie on my bed doing nothing, I will watch YouTube videos, Netflix, anything that requires zero brain power. It’s terrible. I honestly don’t know why I do it; I feel really groggy and overall bad after an hour and a half of nothing, and I wish I could get myself to do something not completely unproductive. I guess it will just take will power and practice but for now, I will wait for the witching hour to scare my laziness away.