Cruisin’
Writers write. How often do we forget that? Or let a day or two slip by without doing any writing-related work. I had what I’d call a bad writing year last year. I don’t intend for this year to be a bad writing year, but you wouldn’t know it from my effort or output this year.
I have two projects I plan to complete this year. Time isn’t waiting for me. I had better get to work.
That’s why I don’t go to bed until I get 500 words. On a good day, that’s only half an hour. On a bad day…. It might be a small count, but it does add up eventually. Best of luck kicking that muse into action!
Yeah, that’s my problem exactly. I have the perfect time to write every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and I can’t seem to buckle down. I need to fix that, but don’t know how.
Oh, boy, can I relate to that! Skipping a day can lead to weeks with firing up the laptop. It’s so hard, but one thing I’m slowly learning is that if the muse is on sabbatical, writing something will get his attention and he’ll come to see what I’m doing. (Sort of like Ryan comes to the office when he hears the office chair squeak, or my kids have to relate sagas when I pick up the phone.)
What!?! Time doesn’t wait? Maybe that explains my gray hair and wrinkles… Sad part is, how old I’ll look in my author’s photo on the back jacket of the book, when it FINALLY gets published.
LOL
I think people forget that writing is actually hard. That doesn’t mean it’s not enjoyable — because I wouldn’t do it unless it was — but it’s easy to find something else to do. I have to drag myself to my keyboard sometimes. And sometimes I don’t make it, having been waylaid by the TV or a book or, God help me, household chores.