Procrastination - the avoidance of doing something that needs to be completed.

Growing up a procrastinator is an interesting thing. Always leaving things to the last minute to be done is definitely not the best thing to do, but also one of the things that taught me the most about myself and my writing.

Procrastination has taught me responsibility too, believe it or not.

Because of my tendency to procrastinate, I have learned to make sure my first draft is my only draft. Every little bit of grammar and spelling is the best it can be the first shot. For some reason, if I know I only have a little bit of time to get something done, I write to the best of my ability. If I work on something over a long period of time, it may be longer, but the writing is mostly repetitive and nonsense.

I enjoy when writing gets right to the point. It has some colloquialism and some proper language. It feels almost as if the writer is talking directly to me.

Personally, I've never really been able to write the way I like to read. I can't put everything together into one essay and make it perfection my eyes. My writing is never good enough to me. Procrastination is the only way I don't notice this as much.

The less focused I am on my writing the better it is for me to complete the actual task at hand.

I know a handful of my friends that are also avid procrastinators like myself, and we make it through. People are going to tell you that you should never procrastinate but, honestly, if you've made it this far doing so, you'll be fine.

Keep doing you, keep procrastinating. Its a wonderful thing (not really).