Finding Inspiration, Part 2

You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

I think a lot of writers start out with the image of themselves as tortured artists, slaving away at the keyboard or waiting for inspiration to strike.  They write infrequently, if ever, and have more manuscripts half-finished on their hard-drive than they have completed ones.  

And I think its a shame.  

One of the biggest shifts in my career was when I started looking at writing as a job.  I started showing up...