My writer friends and I spend an awful lot of time talking about procrastination, our failure to write, the way our kids’ needs and our messy households seem to get in the way of writing. We know we need to stop talking, stop complaining, and start writing. Still, it helps to know we’re not alone in our many forms of procrastination, and day after day we do tell each other to go sit down and write.
Writer and writing coach Elizabeth Stark offers some wise words about the daily writing routine. Don’t let it be a choice; write no matter what. Write anyway, she says. And now, that is what I am going to do. One thousand more words before I go get the groceries and my mind has to focus on kids and dinner and piano lessons and laundry.