I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.