PROCRASTINATION IS LETHAL!
If time is both the enemy and the best friend of the writer, then procrastination is lethal. If you're a woman, first, you tell yourself that when your toddlers start school, THEN you'll have time to write, but you get busy and keep putting it off. Then you tell yourself when the kids go off to college, you'll have time to write. But you have to take a second job to afford their tuition.
If that's the abbreviated story for a female writer, the male of the species have another set of obstacles. Writing wouldn't be "cool" if you tried to find time as a teenager. Besides, anyone who tries to write at a young age, doesn't have "life experiences" to draw on. In college there's pressure to keep your grades up, then a guy gets married, has kids, car payments and a hefty mortgage. Their career consumes them and they simply don't have time to write.
Get the picture?
It's all about time.
Just as you budget your money, you must learn to budget your time. Of course, this article is being written by a female born under the sign of Capricorn. It's written in the stars for me to be well-organized and it comes easy to me.
My mantra is "do what I have to do so I can do what I want to do."
My advice is to go look in the mirror and be totally honest with yourself. How great, how deep, how urgent is your drive to write and create. If your answer is all three (great, deep and urgent), then FIND the time to write.
Don't do what I did...I looked in the mirror when I was sixty years old and realized that I had wasted many, many productive years.
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