Writing when you'd rather not

I don't want to write tonight. 

It was a busy day at the office--challenging, productive, fun at times, but in the end, mentally exhausting. After that, I had my weekly saxophone lesson. Not exausting but challenging, which is what I'm paying him for.  And now it's time to work on my next book. It would be easy to say, 'take a night off, do it tomorrow, catch up on your relaxing' - the problem is, it's always easy to say that. Now I'm a clever guy, I'm sure I could come up with a dozen bullshit excuses why I don't need to write tonight. Tomorrow night I could come up with a dozen more. Yet no matter how many excuses I come up with, they're all still bullshit. 

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