For about five years now, I've been trying to get back into writing in earnest, on personal stuff rather than 'whatever prompt a writing group I happen to be in gives me'. See, between 2001 and 2004 I wrote a ton. About a year and a half of that was putting stuff out weekly. Less frequently but still relatively active in 2003 and 2004. And while I wasn't really aiming to get back to anything quite as frequent, particularly since most of that writing wasn't prose and prose takes longer than the more script-based stuff I was mostly writing back then (Although I was still also writing more prose back then than I'd been writing since. On top of the weekly stuff.), I was trying to get... You know. One bit of short writing a month, maybe?

While I have so far maintained that goal of doing some writing/editing/prepping for uploading each day and which doesn't count 'writing an idea down to be worked on later' unless it's an actual, honest to god, breakdown of how a scene and/or story is going to go rather than just writing down an idea for a story, I have discovered a small brain trap that might be more insidious than the thing I used to do of 'doing extensive world-building instead of actual writing'

I currently have about 3-4 writing projects on the go (depending on if the project sitting in my drafts waiting for me to do another editing pass on it as active) - The weekly series which I have something of a buffer on but also a the longer, more intricate, chapter is coming up in April so I need to be prioritizing, a work that I've nearly finished the first draft but I need to figure out one thing to write a mid-segment of, and something I just started on and got the first scene written the other night.

...So, yeah. Apparently, I've found a way of procrastinating while feeling extremely productive and exercising the same creative muscles that the actual work would be exercising without actually progressing on the thing I need to be working on. I'm close enough to finishing that I probably shouldn't be too worried - I think there are only about 10-20 segments left to write (and I'm expecting that to be closer to 10 than 20, and when I do get writing rather than planning work on it done I usually get at least one done each day.