I often feel that I ought to check out other people’s blogs prior to beginning to write. Then I must walk my dog and, of course there are the endless cups of coffee and tea required to sustain the writing process. Despite having a cleaner (lazy man that I am)! I still manage to find things to do around the flat to distract me from writing!
We ought to be writing. We want to be writing. But when we get the chance, what are we doing instead?
1. Housework
If there are household chores that need doing, we’ll do anything else, which is only logical because housework is boring, tiring, and soon enough it’ll need doing all over again.
But when we’ve got some writing time, suddenly there’s an urgent desire – no, a compulsion – to clear away the breakfast things first. And it would only be sensible to put a load of dirty clothes in the washing machine so that they can be doing in the meantime. And, oh, there’s gunk that’s really crying out to be teased from of the plughole in the shower. We don’t exactly turn into domestic gods and goddesses, just furious tidiers and fixers, laden with clean laundry, dirty cups, and distracted good intentions, on our way to…
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K Morris - Poet 
When I’m not in the zone it depends on what’s on the telly. 🙂