Novel Editing Procrastinators Club

Who else is procrastinating to edit their novel?
I know that's what I should be doing right now, but... I am at heart a procrastinator. I probably won't get around to editing until mid-January. *sigh*

Anyone want to join the club?

I am so ready for membership. I just said to myself, "Okay, time to start editing! ...well, let's check the NaNo forums. You know, for some tips on editing."

Oh yeah. I am so there. I was going to edit and then life and Christmas came along. And a great short story that's mostly revised. So I swear to myself that I'll start it... after the 10 page term paper... uggh.

I should be editing right now because this is my one completely free day during Christmas Holiday, but here I am, on the Nanowrimo forums as usual. Must. Get. Back. To. Novel.

I was doing this for a while but I find that my inner procrastinatrix can be easily bait-and-switched. As long as there's something I want to do even *less*, I can use the first thing i was procrastinating on to procrastinate on the new thing.

Which is the real reason I've finally started editing. Better to edit than to dwell on stupid boys! My novel is my happy distraction for the moment.

A perfect club for me to join!! I keep getting distracted by facebook and the nanowrimo forums. How is any writer supposed to concentrate with such wonderful websites to consume your free time with?!

I have been working on an outline for another novel I want to work on but I've been procrastinating for that too which ultimately makes me procrastinate for everything else that involves writing.... =)

I haven't started yet because I didn't even finish my novel until the middle of December. Last night about 30 minutes past midnight I turned to my friend and said "I just had a horrible realization. I told myself I would start editing after December...And it's not December anymore!" DX Editing is this huge monster staring me in the face waiting to be possessed by my inner editor so they can work together to devour me.

Ha! I'm still typing my novel! Becuase of this lovely thing called school, I was forced to write it all (or most of it) in a notebook, and type it at home, however, I fell behind on my typing, and I am now paying dearly for it. And even better, I lost like 10,000 words! Uggg so that took my typed word count from 35,000 down to 25,000! Yeah! And I hardly ever have time to work on it! Can I join!

I'd even had ideas already what things I definitely have to change. Thing is, I can't do that right now due to my health. /: Also, I have to look up first what to do and blah, you know. Get some knowledge about the whole editing thing.

Also, I don't even know why I should do it. Alright, a lot of people told me they were interested in my novel. Even people I don't know. So I guess the plot itself sparks at least some interest. But I don't know if they meant "I want to read it online but would never waste money on it" or "I would buy it if it was published".
Another problem: Say, if I really spent my time editing and rewriting this thing until it looks like a proper novel ... I still have the problem that I live in a german speaking country but wrote my novel in English. And I don't want to translate it myself since meh, my characters speak English in my head and I tried writing this in German and failed.
/: This gets me down again.

Count me in.

"Oh, I cleaned up one whole chapter! I can totally take a break. For the rest of the night."

Count me in! I joined WriYe thinking it would help. It did, for about 7 days. Then...nothing... Sigh!

Count me in. I'm all so anxious to get it capital-D Done and slap a query letter on it and start sending it on its way, but I know it needs at least one more good pass, and you know, you only have so many of those in you before you're just burnt out on the whole endeavor, and it's so much easier not to start than it is to start and run out of gas before you finish. It's a heck of a thing.

I'll join you all tomorrow.

Thanks to final year at university and applying for post-grad courses and jobs, I simply haven't had the time. When I do have a few hours to spare, I spend them knitting with my nana. Yeah. I'm cool.

I'm just about to take my first look at my efforts, hardly a novel more of an outline, so really need to actually tidy up and expand it before editing but I'm going to read it all first.

I vow to get the red pen out and edit as I go so I can at least see any gems hidden in the rough stuff!! Good luck fellow editors.

Oh my word, this seems harder than writing the flipping thing, maybe I needed the pressure of writing x number of words a night, now I'm eating chocolate, checking facebook, looking for tips on here, putting the washing away...you get the picture and I'm back to being as wrecked as I was during NANO because I'm still up til 2am every night doing it! Please, someone knock some sense into me!

I totally understand this!!!

I really need to actually finish mine before I can really start editing it, but every time I sit down and go "Right, writing time!", I get distracted by something. It's compounded by the fact that all I've got left to write is the big climax (which I am terrified of writing) and then the fallout, which is where the novel ends. I reckon it's a case of maybe another 10/15k, which seems like nothing, but it's been just sitting there for over a month!!

Hello! I'm procrastinating from rewriting my second chapter because I'm tired and really don't feel like trying to come up with new dialogue for it. And besides, it requires so much less brain power to browse the forums than it does to actually write.

I, sadly, won't ever be joining this club, at least with this novel. Finishing the first draft is the extent of my plans for it. The plot is so terribly flawed (I actually thought I could wing 80,000 words) that the only thing it's good for is practice. However, I have high hopes for my upcoming fantasy novel, so maybe I'll see you all in a few months in this club.

OK, a club I can easily be a member of. I'm still editing my novel which means I do it 2 or 3 times a week. Why? Strangely enough, I'm afraid of publishing it.

Now, don't get me wrong. I won't send this novel to a publisher or even to an agent. I'm considering self-publishing or putting it for free on the Internet. And that's what makes me unable to do what needs to be done.

I had the same problem with another novel I put on the Internet four years ago. It was as much fun as going to the dentist to have all my teeth pulled out.

Writing is great, publishing... well, that's another story.

I was totally procrastinating... up till today. I've edited about 80 pages so far and I want to crawl back into the safety of 'I've written a novel and it's amazing' rather than 'I'm editing a novel and I can tell that it was written in a month'!
My advice - DON'T. DO. IT. Spare yourself the pain!