Diana Athill describes the writer's dilemma

How brilliantly the great writer and editor Diana Athill expresses the problem I face now. It's finally time to offer my manuscript to agents and publishers, and I desperately need a dose of her casual self-understanding:

"I am gravely tempted to...[fill in the blank with any of a number of distracting tasks] - but probably that is the subconscious throwing up a diversionary tactic."
(p 101)