There is no simpler way for me to tell you this: If you want to write, you can do it. It’s up to you.
I hear a lot of reasons why people don’t write. They always sound good but they have to be because they aren’t for me. They are for the people giving me the excuse. I know because I used a lot of them before I started writing again.
It took time and energy to lie to myself and others why I wasn’t writing. If I was working back then at the pace I am now, I could have completed at least 90 drafts, I could have been past my 10,000 mistakes and my 10,000 hours of practise. I regret now that time I wasted.
Now, it is your time to choose but remember it has nothing to do about time, or money, or skill, or talent, or the right writing tools, or a place to write.
It is about you making the choice to begin.
Write. Do the work.
This is a part of the practice of becoming a writer. It is about making the mistakes and writing ugly stuff. It is about learning what you like and what you hate. It is about not letting yourself pretend that you are working just because you are researching or thinking about the story or waiting for inspiration.
It is about learning about how you work and that learn to run on empty is sometimes the process and then, at the end of it, for the rest of the day, fill the well.
