21 Reasons You Think You Don't Have Time to Write:

You are letting people tell you that you should be doing other things with your time (like clean your house or volunteer for things you feel pressured to do).

You can't live with the level of clean that the rest of your family accepts as normal.

You haven't decided to treat your writing seriously and so no one around you treats it seriously, either.

You haven't made yourself a writing space.

You haven't realized you need help.

You do what is urgent rather than what is necessary.

You don't let your kids and other people solve their own problems, even though they could—and should.

You think that someday you will have more time for writing.

You are spending your time doing things you actually don't care about (chatting on the phone or watching TV that bores you).

You do things for other people they should be doing for themselves (cleaning children's rooms or doing things that you should let go of).

You are actually using distractions as an excuse not to write because it is easier to be distracted than to write.

You are terrified of writing, of actually sitting down and putting yourself on the page.

You have been talking about writing for a long time, but don't know what will happen when you commit to it.

You don't know what to do with a blank page.

You need to learn to turn off the internal editor that tells you that every thing you write in a first draft is crap. Yes, it is. That's normal.

You need to actually do a little planning and research. But not as much as you think you do.

You actually don't like writing. You like having written.

You need to write the first line of a chapter before you leave the office the previous day.

You need to spend time remembering what it is that you love about writing. This can be done by watching TV or movies or reading old books or new you love. The well is dry and needs to be refilled.

You have convinced yourself you need 2 hours to write and don't know how to use the chunks of 20 minutes you actually have.

You don't have notebooks scattered throughout the house, including the bathroom, for when inspiration strikes.