The thing that writing and exercise has in common to me is that when I'm doing them, I enjoy them.  I feel good, I feel productive, I feel accomplished.  But I always have to fight my way through the resistance.  I always don't want to before I start.  I have to hoist my self into a place where I start.  I know I've said this before . . . writing means get your ass in the chair.  It also means stop procrastinating on the net and don't let yourself get distracted by other stuff.  It means make a priority of it--it may not be the most urgent thing on the table, but it is the most important (usually, catastrophic events not withstanding).  It should be the thing you make a point to do every day.  Every day.  And the more you work at it, the better you get.  I don't mean just skills, but I mean your imagination, your ideas, your lizard brain, all wake up and start working more--even when, especially when, you aren't actually in front of the computer writing. When you are lazy, they get lazy, and then things are even harder to do, the resistance harder to overcome. 

So guess what I've been doing this week?  Avoiding.  I've been getting some written, and sure, I've got reasons, one or two even good reasons, but still.  I don't get to allow myself to stop.  In a little over a week, is start back to class, which means developing classes, teaching, grading, responding to students, etc.  My husband will also be taking classes, so I'll have care of the kids for part of the day too.  So what that means is I'll have even less time to write.  If I haven't hit a groove by then, if I haven't developed a solid habit by then (again, that is), then I'll struggle.  So.  That's what I'm going to do.  Work on getting my ass into the chair, and writing.  Getting words onto the paper.

But that also means I'll have to scrape up any extra bits of time and put them to purposeful use. Which I'm about to go do right now.

Di