How to make time for writing

Illustration by Monica Barengo

This just hit me. I have all the time in the world, and I’m the one who is choosing how to use it.

I often hear you complain (or laugh about it, so as not to start crying) how you don’t have the time to write when I ask you why you're not writing (after you tell me you want to). And I was thinking about it for days and days and days...until it hit me today.

I was checking something on my phone. Twitter or email. And then I stopped myself. I thought, “Wait, why...