Not-so-massive Action Day

Writing coach Jurgen Wolff is doing another Massive Action Day today! It's still going on for a few more hours--I don't know where he gets his stamina. Even though I'm supposed to be resting and recovering from my Lasik, I couldn't resist joining in. I got a novelette planned and started, but holy hell, I'm exhausted now! Also, my computer went all wonky and booted me out of the chat before I could win a prize (because you know I always win a prize everywhere I go. People shower me with prizes just for being me). ETA: WOOT, I won the thing!*

I thought for sure it was my video card crapping out, which I've been waiting to happen since the beginning of the year, but then I ran a utility, found a disk error, got that cleared up and now it seems fine.

I had hoped to write 2k today but it looks like I will need to be happy with 1.6k. I'm seriously too pooped to keep going.

One thing that surprised me was that I used up an inordinate amount of time naming characters. Important, yes. Could I have given them placeholder names instead and reached my 2k? Yeah, probably so. And I'm really disappointed I didn't do that.

Are there any ways that you waste time when you want to be writing? Are there any ways you've found to circumvent those sneaky time-wasting ways?

*Here is what I won, YAY!


YET ANOTHER EDIT: I revisited the piece and got to 2025 words. Go, me!