Time

One of the hardest things most writers have to do is defend their writing time.

There are always chores to be done, emergencies to be dealt with, other people who want large pieces of your time for something, and really cool things that writers would love to be doing in addition to or instead of writing. And you are the only one who can stop yourself from getting up from the computer to feed the cat and do the laundry, to call the plumber about the sudden explosion in the bathroom pipes, to answer...