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    Rearranging the House at Night

    by Ann Beattie Sep 18, 2017 3 minutes

    In our new series, Procrastination Confessional, writers share the strange things they do to avoid writing. 

    Ann Beattie’s procrastination still life.

    It has long been my assertion that writers will do anything in order to avoid writing. Ask any of my former students. Teaching used to be the perfect way to avoid writing, as seminars and private conferences took up a lot of time, along with written comments. Have you heard that writers are a bunch of narcissistic alcoholics? (Probably Trump

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