1. Insist that the desktop computer is mine for writing from eight in the morning until noon...and then do everything but actually write.

2. Ignore the "deposit" made by the cat with diarhea until the mate wakes up and then make him take care of it.

3. Hide the broom in the closet all week long until the floor crunches underfoot--hey, I'm a writer with a forty-hour-a-week job, too, I shouldn't have to do everything!

4. Torment the trustees by telling them, "I'm not locked in here with you--you're locked in here with me."

5. Refer to the trustees as "minions."

6. Refer to my offspring as "minions."

7. Refer to the offsprings' friends as "hominids."

Some of my bad habits:

1. Posting to a forum and checking for responses every five minutes. On receiving an answer, I don't reply as I think I've nothing interesting to say.

2. Reading Google news in the morning (just for five minutes). I then spend the morning and half the afternoon drifting from morsel to morsel of increasingly weird news reports, Youtube videos, New Age sites and conspiracy theory forums.

4. Tripping over the piles of books scattered over the floor that I have no time to clear up (see 2)

5. Avoiding the reproachful glare of the blank paper/computer screen sheet by "doing something useful". Walking the dogs, washing-up, emptying the rubbish, making a cup of coffee, taking a shower, browsing the internet for ideas (see 2) etc etc etc

6. Labelling ideas as silly as soon as (or even before)they emerge from my imagination until it gives up and sulks for days.

7. Writing a few pages of a story and polishing the fragment repeatedly rather than finishing it.

For sure.

And I'll add "drinking too much coffee" and "indulging my passion for bad movies."

so I can forget that bloody poem.

Your no. 2. Oh yeah. We should found a society.