“I’m way to busy to write right now. I’ll do some more writing next week.”

Yeah, right…

I’ve said that to myself many times, and every time I’ve utterly failed to write anything in the alloted time. The strange thing about being busy is that it follows you around like a hungry hyena. If you’re busy today, chances are you’ll be busy tomorrow too. Busy people fill their days off with things to do too. My girlfriend is the master of this. Her weekend to do list looks like the first chapter of my novel.

The only time I have ever gotten anything done at all is when I have sat down, said to myself  “now is the hour” and gotten down to putting words on paper. You can find the time, no-one works twenty four hours a day (except Janet Evanovich, she’s a writing machine).

Don’t get me wrong, you need down time too. Without charging your batteries every now and again you can’t expect to write anything (unless again, you’re Janet Evanovich) and some days you really will be fighting for every second, but if Chuck Palahniuk can write Fight Club in five minute chunks of his work-breaks, you can get the words down too.

Just a short update today as I need to get back to following my own advice. I’ve finished another article on beating writer’s block, just waiting on permission to tell you guys about a great trick I learned.