“A writer writes, always”

That is one of my favorite quotes from the movie Throw Mama from the Train, a comedy about writers and writer’s block. I periodically and ritually repeat it to myself – not quite every day perhaps, but often enough. My problem, alas, is not writer’s block, but writer’s energy level. A writer writes, always … except when a writer spends nine to ten hours in a stressful office environment, and another two hours or more stuck in one of the nation’s top five worst commutes, and arrives home feeling brain dead and lobotomized, too tired to think of what to cook for dinner, let alone the structure of a future galactic civilization where humans are not the dominant species. A writer writes, always, I chant to myself, as I flop into a chair and pet the dog … and wake up an hour later. A writer wants to write, always …. tomorrow will be better.