1. dawdling - Noun
2. dawdling - Verb
of Dawdle
Source: Webster's dictionaryFilm composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered. Ralph Vaughan Williams
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland
[I] begged for crumbs and morsels door to door...Plodding and dawdling around lanes. Tulsidas