It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged

...that a person trying to write a book, who knows that she has run out of excuses for why she has not yet finished the book, will try to fill the time by coming up with other ideas for other, more popular, books. Of these, 100% will be utterly terrible ideas, and yet, she will feel incredibly compelled to mull over possible plots, character names, crucial scenes, quippy lines of dialogue, etc., at all moments, and most of all when she should be writing the actual book she is actually writing (which sadly contains no quippy dialogue, or plot, for that matter.) She may also write of herself in the third person and spend inordinate amounts of time reading over the archives of Ask Metafilter, looking up random terms in Wikipedia, submitting mix-tape requests, reviewing advice columns, and generally being fascinated by the huge amount of information available on all topics other than the one she is supposedly making a book on. She may, in her darkest moments, contemplate meta-fiction. It is at that moment that she will hear the sweet voice of her child, offering the following pearl of youthful wisdom: "Oh Mama. You're just a fussbucket George."