Making Time, Making Energy

Writing takes emotional and physical energy. And time.

This means you have to prioritize time and energy if writing is something you want to do. One of the biggest mistakes I see novice or unpublished (not necessarily the same thing!) writers committing is trying to fit writing in the same way you fit in bathroom breaks. Or not quite, because writing doesn't have the same biological urgency a full bladder does. (At least, not for most people.)

Plenty of novices/unpublished writers get to the...