No Time To Write? Liar!

"I have so much going on in my life right now that I don't have time to even think about writing."

That's what someone said to me recently. Can you believe that?

It's a ridiculous statement.

And a lie.

We all have time to write.

And there's nothing more annoying to those of us who are writing and making a living out of it, than to hear someone who never writes at all claiming that they would write, but they just don't have the time.

Every successful writer began as a busy person who made a habit of prioritising their writing instead of putting it off with excuse after excuse.

An excuse isn't a reason for not writing, it's a way of trying to say that it's not your fault that you're not writing.

But it is your fault.

Just take a look at this article by successful and prolific writer, Emma Darwin, who explains quite succinctly how to get some writing done every day AND get your novel written, even if you believe you don't have time.

http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/2015/01/ring-fencing-writing-time.html

Or how about the article called "Just Write the Damned Book Already" by Joseph Finder who also gets annoyed with people who claim they don't have time to write and counters it with "And if only I had the time to run for President, I’d be in the White House."

http://www.josephfinder.com/writers/tips/just-write-the-damned-book-already/

Or if you want to be truly inspired by seeing just how much another author does write every day, take a look at Dean Wesley Smith's blog post series called "Writing in Public" where he publicly details how many words he writes every day.

http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/category/challenge-2/page/4/

And he doesn't just tell you how much he writes, but tells you what he does all day so you can see his day unfolding from start to finish.  His blog posts can really give you motivation.

So if you tell people that you don't have time to write, stop talking, apply backside to chair and get writing.

You'll be surprised at just how much you can write in a short time.

I can do half a page of writing in just 5 minutes which means by doing that every day, I could write a novel in a year.

How about you?