Are You Actually Writing?

Things that are not actually writing:

Looking for that tab you had open as reference material for a blog entry
Outlining
Complaining about not writing
Practicing your quick-draw technique in case of a duel
Sharpening your samurai sword
Slimming down your collection of 5,000 fonts
Tweeting
Facebooking
Searching the web to see of other people have the same problem as you
Replying to blogs saying “OMG I thought I was the only one with this problem!”
Replying to other comments with solutions you think you have conjured for the problem
Creating more problems now that you've solved one
Outlining (yes, it is worth saying twice)
Working on your chewing gum collection
Reenacting Firefly scenes with your Lego collection
Chatting online with friends and pretending to be writing because you have a word processor open the background
Shopping for apps
Shopping for gadgets to put apps on
Juggling small poodles
Obsessing about [RANDOM BODY PART]
Obsessing about [RANDOM HOT GUY/GIRL]
Reorganizing your throwing star collection
Gluing your furniture to the ceiling
Outlining, for gods sakes – stop it
Making ice cream statues
Bitching about writers block on your blog (if you can blog, you are not that blocked)
Complaining over beers you should be writing. When you could be writing.
Laundry
Research of any kind
Hunting wabbits
Pressing the backspace key
Wondering if you are original enough (hint: no one is, but write anyway)
And most of all… anything that looks like writing that is not actually contributing to your word count, regardless of how beneficial or essential it is and/or might be to the other aspects of your life