"The Art of Procrastination!"

"Anyone can do any amount of work providing it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."

~Robert Benchley

(close up of "wisdom")

I think my next book will be called

"The Art of Procrastination!"
here is a view of my desk top and in the background behind youtube (Damien Rice) you can see that I am trying too get the words down for "A Charming Exchange", our dead line is at the end of this month. Kelly and I had a meeting of the minds a few days ago and we worked on who needed to do what for our book.


this is my manuscript that I am working from, when I received this in the mail, weeks ago the excitement quickly turned to fear... I said to my self : "oh my this looks like home work! I do not do home work very well"! and "oh my how ever will I do this!?"

(a peek at the manuscript)

if you read my blog , you would have noticed that I have a quirky spelling style...
I am extremely dyslexics , I was so good at overcompensating in school that I was not diagnosed until I was in the 4Th grade ( this was in the 70's when California's class room size's were 38 kids to a room) when a teacher noticed that I was holding a book upside down reading a passage out loud... much testing followed and at the age of 11, I was barley reading at a second grade level... again being a child of the 70's this was all going on before they had special classes for learning disabled kids there was not yet a distinction between learning disability's and handicaps, so I was pulled from normal classes and put in with Handicapped children, because they felt that they could give me one on one action that I needed in hopes that I could catch up some how... I always knew I was different, I always knew I did not get things like other's but when they put me in a class with kids with down syndrome and brain damage who were strapped into wheel chairs, it was hard to understand at such a young age, I understood that even if my lot in life was hard others still had it harder. and a challenge after all is not a challenge with out some difficultly.

As the years passed, with a lot of hard work, I was able to break the code with in my head and understand that how I see and process is different from the masses. By high school I was reading at a 7Th grade level and was main streamed to "normal" classes.

( Baxter my small dog is sitting on my BIG manuscript)

As I sit here trying to write this book, there is some fear... in many ways I am still the 11 year old girl who does not understand, but I never say never, and I only say "I can't do it" a few time because I know that I really can. I think back to my amazing 4Th grade teacher, miss Falkner who discovered that I had a special gift, she loved my drawings and told me that I would be a good child's book illustrator.

But as I grew my art went from drawing to Jewelry and mixed media and
"A Charming Exchange" will be the book and its time to get it written! so I will stop with my procrastination and get back to work!

("wisdom" full view )

"Procrastination is my sin.
It brings me naught but sorrow.
I know that I should stop it.
In fact, I will - tomorrow!
Gloria Pitzer