Novel Saboteur

MRC is a novel saboteur. She knows that I have a limited amount of time to devote to things that I lump into "novel research." Characters in my novel will routinely eat, sleep, run errands, read books, garden, etc. which means that I need to experience those things regularly too, otherwise I will never be able to convey the glory of their ordinariness in my prose.

Enter the Novel Saboteur. She has a clever tactic called "joint custody." By this agreement I have custody of a Nintendo DS whenever MRC has too many "more important things to do." What this really means it that I get so obsessed about getting that last gold coin that I stay up late, don't answer my phone, and neglect my "research."

I think that my protagonist suffers from a gaming addiction.