Making time for writing: keep the gates to your mind closed

Drawing byStefan Zsaitsits

The last few days I keep stumbling on the same issue that either some of you are expressing to me, or I see others struggling with, which is easy to summarize in the following statement:

"Oh, I want to write a book, but I have no time. There's ... (insert a valid-sounding reason like "millions of dollars to chase formy American dream" or "twenty elderly aunts to take care of" or "scores of TV shows to catchup on" or "hungry triplets to feed from three bottles at o...