Find it hard to motivate myself to do things.

Find it hard to motivate myself to do things.

Seems the solution to this is to set aside time.

My new writers’ guild is an hour-long time each Tuesday to be focused.

An hour to write. No phone. No distractions.

People would get much more creative work done if they made time for it. And that time ought to repeat with the same frequency.

So I will write each Tuesday from 5:30pm until 6:30pm.

Beyond that I am going to make time for it most days. Have not committed to this part yet.

At lunch? When I wake up> Before dinner? I’d like 15-30 minutes to write each day. My had gets tired at 45 minutes any way. 15 to work on the craft. Not too big of an ask. 

I will write by hand. Edit by computer. With pen and paper, I write more concisely. I don’t drag on. I don’t wall behind cheap keystrokes.

I will post all to a blog. To put it out into the world. 

When is the best time to edit? I am not sure yet.

I want to minimize how much I am on the screen each day, but there has to be time to edit. To correct the words on my paper to become words on your screen.

I am not a consistent person, at least I don’t feel like one. Never felt like one.

My days are guided by feeling. Almost random. Adding repetition and structure makes me squirm.

But writing is something I want to get better at. Would like to call myself a writer. Author.

Don’t find it hard to write. Never have. It flows. Don’t care much for researched papers. Anything over something structured.

Just got to set aside some time to do it.