Chances are no one is standing behind you with a weapon to your back forcing you to write. Sure, you may have a deadline--self-imposed or otherwise--but if you didn't sit down every day for at least fifteen to twenty minutes to write, the world would keep on spinning.
Wouldn't it be kind of great, though, if we did have that kind of motivation? If writing suddenly became a life or death matter? Because if our lives actually depended on getting one thousand words on the page, we would most certainly rise to the occasion under that kind of pressure.
But life doesn't quite work that way, and if you really want to get one thousand words on the page you might just have to say "no" to something or re-arrange your schedule or get up early or stay up late.
We have to act in our own best self-interest, doing the right thing (writing) for the right reasons. We don't have to write; we want to write. We get to write. We choose to write.
No one is going to force our butts in the chair. The Scrivener file (or MS Word or Mac Pages document) isn't going to open itself. The words won't pour out until we turn the faucet on.
It's all up to us.
Be Brilliant!
~Katie~
