Commit to Writing
One of the most challenging things for a writer is to make the commitment to sit down every day and write.
It can be hard with timing and family and work. The list goes on and on. When you finally sit down, it’s easy to claim writer’s block and go watch television instead of writing.
Well it’s time for you to stop being so soft on yourself and start writing. Make the commitment.
Remember writing challenges? I had the idea I would give a prize at the end of every week to anyone who could show me they had completed the challenge. However, most of those challenges were to set a certain minimum word count every day.
What’s the problem? Well, if you can’t get your butt in a chair to write every day without an instant reward to motivate you, then you’re not going to get published.
There isn’t always going to be someone there (in fact, there is hardly ever going to be someone there) dangling your needed carrot in front of you to motivate you to write. Most of the motivation is going to have to come within you. You are the one who is going to have to whip the moaning, lazy parts of yourself that stop you from writing. Only you can turn down all the voices in your head telling you what you’d rather be doing.
So the next time you choose the television over writing, remind yourself you’re gazing into your future. Ten, twenty, or more years from now, you’ll still be choosing the television.
That is, if you don’t change. Today.
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