Writer's Fallout Shelter

You must decide 1) How many A-#1 Priorities you can handle without breaking and 2) What your A-#1 Priorities are. If writing is one, then you let other things that are not A-#1 Priorities slide in order to write.

This means letting the dishes pile up in the sink, going without sleep, and staying inside on beautiful Saturdays in order to reach The End. And when other, non-A-#1 Priorities do slide in and distract you, you kick yourself in the butt and strap yourself into your desk chair until you are back on track. (Yes, Liam, I do sense you laughing riotously at this last.)

As I said before, writing is a rollercoaster ride, filled with ups and downs, twists and turns. The writers who are published are not magically discovered. They are the ones who stick it out. Some days are just easier than others.

I'm linking an article I wrote on one of my own twisted and turned days.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/fun/five_secrets.htm