I have a report due at my day job. A long, boring report. It’s due really soon, and in fact I was supposed to get it done last weekend, before I’m hit with a deluge of term papers and exams to grade. And before I head to Reno for a week at RT Booklovers con.

I did not finish it over the weekend. It’s still not finished—which is why I just played several rounds of solitaire, checked Facebook, and browsed Buzzfeed. Because yeah, I could trot out some credible excuses about why my work isn’t done yet. I’m legitimately busy right now. Just had my third book release in three months, my older daughter has returned home from her first year at college, and my household isn’t going to run itself. But you and I know the true name of the game: Procrastination.

Some people are constructive procrastinators, like the folks who get an urge to clean when a deadline looms. (If you’re one of those, you’re welcome anytime at my house.) Like my older daughter, who bakes. Some of us, however, can’t even manage to procrastinate well. When my younger daughter has chores to do or it’s bedtime, she starts playing with the cat. My husband watches podcasts about Teslas and the stock market. I hit social media, play solitaire, or do a crossword. Or write a blog post!

In truth, I’m actually very good about meeting deadlines; it’s rare of me to miss one. But I almost always skate right up there to the edge. I don’t know if this is laziness or just a nerdy version of living dangerously. Some people go out for extreme sports—I just Wait Until the Last Minute!

In an ideal world, procrastination would be recognized as the art form it is, and awards would be given out for especially inspiring or creative examples. So tell me. If there were such an award, would you be a contender? Explain why!

And now I really need to write that report.

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Kim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Like Kim herself, her work is eclectic, spanning genres such as contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds, in 15th century Bosnia, in modern-day Oregon. Her heroes are hipster architect werewolves, housekeepers, maimed giants, and conflicted graduate students. They’re usually flawed, they often encounter terrible obstacles, but they always find love.

After having migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States, Kim calls the boring part of California home. She lives there with her husband, her two daughters, and her day job as a university professor, but escapes as often as possible via car, train, plane, or boat. This may explain why her characters often seem to be in transit as well. She dreams of traveling and writing full-time.

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