QOTD: My Favorite Waste of Time
All writers should have as many forms of unproductive distraction as possible. For me it used to be that I would clean drawers or rearrange my closets or start cooking lunch. I had many, many ways of pretending to be working, but not really working. So Twitter is quite marvelous at that. It is a wonderful, wonderful way of just procrastinating …
— Author Susan Orlean, extolling a side benefit of Twitter, on the All Write Already! podcast