Well, I still have some writing ahead of me tonight, but I felt the need to report that in a desperate attempt to procrastinate I watched the movie Mama Mia! tonight. It shows just how dedicated I was to delaying my writing that I watched the entire thing. I'm really not sure what's more impressive, how terrible the music was (I'm sorry but there are only so many poorly sung ABBA covers you can listen to in one 2hr period, come to that there are only so many well sung ABBA covers you can listen to in a 2hr period) or how shockingly bad the acting was.
I say that the acting was shockingly bad not because I'm surprised that the acting in a movie musical based entirely on the songs of ABBA would be shoddy, but because many of the actors in the movie are generally quite good. I can only assume that their performances dropped because the writing was shit and breaking into untrained song every 5 minutes was throwing them off their game. Seriously, I love, LOVE Pierce Brosnan, but the man should not be allowed to sing.
Yikes.
So, anyway, I'm hoping that that is my last vestige of cowardice from my previous lack of writing. In truth, even when I'm on a schedule that has me cranking out over 3,000 words a day there is still a LOT of procrastinating that goes on. I consider it an important part of the writing process. Yet, I hope that I will never be this desperate again, as the whole experience was slightly painful.
Ok. I felt that I needed to get that off my chest. Now it's time to actually get to that writing. Here's hoping I can get dancing queen out of my head long enough to get a few words down.
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