Writers Digest knows that you are great at procrastinating--whether the project's too hard or if you've simply got a nice case of Writers Block. Here, Jordan E. Rosenfeld anticipates some of the ways that you can avoid procrastination when writing your novel:

Reduce research. One of the most effective ways to procrastinate, and therefore never finish that novel you've been dying to write since you were 12, is to launch yourself into research. You know how it is: You begin with a tiny piece of information you want to verify, like whether women's stockings actually had a seam up the back in the 1960s. Then you stumble onto a tangent: Not only did they have a seam, but they were all made of 100 percent silk; none of that practical latex and nylon we have today. And suddenly you stumble into a fascinating history of the man who designed the first pair of stockings...but you've penned nothing more toward your novel. Research is useful and necessary in many cases, but if it keeps you from writing, it's only hampering you.

Meanwhile, Michael J. Vaughn says that if you've got writers block, just work with it, because if you make the best of the time you have where you can't think, well, it just might lead to some thinking. More on "creative lollygagging" here.