it keeps me away from writing

What keeps me away from writing?

• Too many things in my head.  sometimes it is really hard to clear them out in order to get started on a project.
• Too many fires to put it in front of me.
• e-mails
• marketing
• student problems arising suddenly
•  drop-ins
•  the phone
• I like doing the other things in life, too. The level of inertia to get started on those sorts of things – going swimming, cooking dinner, playing a videogame – is remarkably less.
• Tasks that are part of writing that don't seem directly related to the goal of the final product can get forgotten (?), Or at least they don't seem like they come as readily, but they block the actual writing that needs to get done.
• Perhaps it's a stupid example, but starting to write an agenda for the faculty meeting required me to go and access the calendar in order to be up to provide faculty the key dates in the calendar that they need to be aware of. 
• Needing to sit down and read the articles as a part of doing the writing
• Needing to sit down and analyze data as part of doing the writing
• Needing to conceptualize a project for writing a proposal
•  needing to write the proposals/abstract for conferences which also doesn't feel like real writing
•  The place where  I do my writing, is also a place where I interact socially, relax as part of some of my leisure time, engage with  entertainment. In part, it makes it easier to click the "play" button rather than the "work" button.
• Lately, I have to admit to suffering from a general malaise. The sort of passion might normally drive me to start and finish a project just isn't there on many occasions.
•  Maybe the truth is, I don't really like many parts of this job.

Still, I think the biggest thing is that I've got too many projects I want to do. I feel like if I could get one or two or three of them out the door and clear off the general played a little bit that I could move forward on some of the others. So perhaps it's good for me to sit down and list out the projects that I have in my head that I wanted to and then train spent some time each week during the writing block working on individual projects.

So here's the list:

• Memrise
•  submit proposal to  FEELTA 
• Second and third
•  submit proposal to  FEELTA 
• Paper with Ms. Yang 
•  submit proposal to  FEELTA
•  Working on my dissertation ideas
•  Blogging kind of things
•  E.G. how not using technology is destroying the brains of adults
•  emotion ELT 
•  the brain and ELT

Lack of confidence? Suffering too much pain in the process of getting the writing done?