I think procrastination needs to be lumped in with everything else that makes up the creative process. It’s important to recognize that sometimes we need to not think about something in order for that something to churn around in the back of heads. Some people work best under pressure, or think best in the shower; whatever the case may be if you are aware that you are procrastinating when you should be doing your work its not necessarily a bad thing.
The text below is taken from an interview with Jason Schwartzman Fresh Air about writing the theme song to Bored to Death
On writing the theme song for Bored to Death
“This is an embarrassing story, and one that I feel terrible about because it will expose me as a low-key liar. But I did it and I brought it upon myself so I’m just going to come clean now. … I was finishing up a film, Funny People, that I was acting in that was taking up all of my days. And I was supposed to be writing the song, and every week I would get an e-mail from people at HBO saying, ‘How’s the song coming?’ And I would just say, ‘Everything is great,’ even though I had nothing written. And I would quickly invent something that I had written, and describe something, like, ‘I’ve come up with this walking bass line; I think it’s very right for the song,’ and they’d write back, ‘Great. Can’t wait to hear it.’ … Basically, I lied for a month on the fly about what was in this song, musically. Then it came time for me to submit a demo, and not to seem like a liar, I went back through all of my sent e-mails and saw all of the things I had said were in the song, wrote them down — and then basically to fulfill the lie, I wrote the song based on every fib I had e-mailed. And I wrote it in 10 minutes.”