Friend over today, so I can’t update. I’ll see what I can do tommorow, if the homework situation is light.
However, I have managed to get someone to create a character from my book as a brawl character hack, so YAY ME! 
…not that you care, or anything.
Sorry about the forgotten update yesterday. Hey, what did you expect from a blog about procrastination? Free homemade icecream daily?
Well, today’s spotlight is a nice little blog called Backstory. It’s a place where “authors share secrets, truths, logical and illogical moments that sparked their fiction or memoirs.”
Give it a click!
Hooray! It’s double-advice Friday!
What to write, what to write. This is by far the hardest day for me to update.
Hmm…
Here’s one. When you find yourself strapped for ideas, think about not what YOU want to WRITE, but what your AUDIENCE wants to HEAR. If you were reading this story, what would YOU want to happen next? In other words, let your imaginary audience decide for you. I’m sure you can, haven’t you always read a book and thought: “If I were the author, I would make buck wander out of camp and get lost, and half to fend for himself for the night,” or something else relating to whatever book you’re reading at the moment. If you think your audience would like your MC to buy a sack of monkey fists, then have him buy the darn sack of monkey fists!
And, to compensate for my lack of creative inspiration for this next piece of advice, please enjoy this shabbily drawn MS Paint picture of The Homonculus: 
The stare... THE STARE
It would seem that I posted the saturday spotlight on Friday. Oh, how the night can get a hold of your brain.
Well, today I wrote at home for the first time in a while, with homework and my discovery of video game hacking and all, so it was a good feeling to get to work again. Sadly, I did not get nearly the word count I was hoping for. But the whole comedy of the selection made up for it. I would post an excerpt, but the situation is not quite finished, so you’ll have to wait ’till tomorrow.
Well, I guess that means I’m doing double-advice Friday in that case to make up for the early spotlight saturday.
So, let me flip through my mental archive of notes. I’m sure we all know the whole willpower situation. But, many of you, including myself, find it easier said than done. It can become easier simply through some relaxation exercises. Simply breath deeply, and clear your mind of writing for the time being. Draw, write a letter, brainstorm. It will work.
But, now time for my favorite piece of advice. A lot of us know where in our story we want to get to in the short term or chapter, but we just don’t know how to get there, or our mind is acting like a brat and is saying “I don’t wanna!” to us when we tell it to think of solutions. But here’s a helpful, out-of-the-box tip for those situations. Start from the point you want to get to, say, for example, what I want to get to, “Annabeth and Gregor teasing eachother in the mountain-side hotspring in a brother and sister manner.” And then, people, you work backwards. Let’s say “they get there after Houl leads them down the trail that he found on his ride with his cat.” Huh. And then he finds the trail after he is found by the rest of the party, which is where I am currently at. Wow! I’ve found out what I’m going to write! Isn’t that simple? Try it!
Well, well, I found a wonderful sight for writing today on the first Blog Spotlight Saturday! This is, indeed, one of the top sites for creative writers, so likely you’ve seen it before. Either way, it’s chalk full of helpful references for writers and funny comics that we can all relate to. So, what are you waiting for? Click the little picture down there!
Hmm, if you’re like me and you like to make excuses for yourself and not writing, primarily, the “oh, I didn’t have time” excuse, then fear not. There are a lot of unlikely oppurtunities to work on your literary work away from home, that if you seiz them, they will pay off. For instance, take what I’m doing right now: I’m updating from the school computer. I could be writing, if I had taken my usb with me.
All you need to do is buy a protected usb and save your work to it, and then take it with you when you go places. Soon, when you find an oppurtunity, say, when you’ve completed whatever work you need done on your workplace’s/office’s/school’s computer, than just plug that baby in and use the rest of the hour to write! You’ll be surprised at the imense amount of progress you can get done in such a short amount of time in a proper working atmosphere!
Just remember to periodically save your novel to your computer to back it up, in case your usb gets one too many specks of dust on it.
Now, I gotta go, my teacher may be checking in on my screen any minute. Happy writing!
Due to school, updates will officially take place on Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night. See? I set a scheduel. It helps with things like procrastination.
Have some advice you want to submit to the advice database? Send it in at cloudhopper013@yahoo.com!
You thought I wouldn’t update today, did you?? But no, I did! Yay me!! And hooray for getting around procrastination. Today, I have by far the most simple and effective advice (other than visiting my advice page up there ^^^). The problem with procrastination is that, while your will to do what you want to do is strong, and you know you should be doing it, and YOU WANT to do it, there is something in the back of your mind that is preventing you from doing it. And when those two things go to war, they each get half of their way and result in you having not any fun at all while procrastinating, but not writing. In other words, the most unproductive few hours of your life EVER. I have found though, that once you start doing what you want to do, it’s easy to continue. But you can’t do it all at once. You have to do it in steps. Start by closing out your internet browser. It’s easier to resist continuing surfing if the browser is not up. Then, open up word. Huh, your willpower is already getting a little stronger, isn’t it? Now, open up your novel or assignment. Scroll to the bottom. Wow, you’re actually doing it!! Can you believe this? Now take a breather. You’re at the bottom of the page. This is the edge of the cliff where most people give up and walk away instead of building a bridge across the gap. Don’t back out. Start with something easy. Write ONE sentence. Easy peasy, your getting into the rhythm. Now write one more. Oddly easier then the first time, eh? Write another. The beat is picking up and becoming fluid. And now write a paragraph! Two! And viola! (Did I spell that right, all you french-speakers?) You’re into the rhythm and typing away, with no little blinking facebook browser on the bottom of your moniter to impede your progress! Keep going! It’s easy! You’re like frikkin’ donkey kong! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixr9Zrf9F10&feature=related
Keep goin! I’ll let you be with yourself now, and your novel. Bye! 
Lo! Welcome to today’s edition of Pure Procrastination! I would like to say to everybody that today is a great day! My long-lost writing buddy finally got back in touch with me! (throws confetti) How does this relate to you? Simple! It gives me another piece of advice! Writing buddies, whether you know them personally or over the internet, are a great tool for getting back into writing. Everybody could always use a little push from a friend. There are also many writing-buddy based activities you can pull off to keep those creative juices flowing.
Among them are
-Challenges. Challenge each other to do daring things in your stories. “Try to involve a turtle into the story somehow. Bonus points if it’s an important plot device. Extra bonus points if it’s a glowing turtle.”
-Word wars. I believe I’ve covered these before. Simple. Arrange a time for writing, like from X:00 to Y:00. Then, whoever writes the most words in that time wins! A little competition always helps!
-Conflicts. Similar to challenges, it helps to mix things up a little. “Stuck? Give a character pink hair. See what happens.”
-Brainstorming sessions. Simple, each of you generates ideas to help the other person along in their novel, like what should happen next. Just toss every thought out there! Nothing is a bad idea!
That’s it for today’s edition, now I need to go update the advice page!