Energy to Power my Writing

I have one of these perpetual motion cat-toasts in the back room, and I hook myself up to a helmet powered by it when I sleep. It’s where I get both the story ideas and the energy to write my books.

I wish.

Unfortunately, neither ideas, energy, or the time are quite that easy to produce. You have to make them all. And by that I mean I sit down with a notepad and a pen and I make ideas. I decide to wake up and write even when I really don’t want to, or type away in my Scrivener document when...