FFW #3: How To Prioritize Your Writing Practice — Super Useful Advice From Someone Who Writes (Almost) Every Day

The biggest difference between “writers” and writers is the commitment to our creative writing practice.

This is Part 3 of the Fighting For Writing series, a 10-part blog series that will help you define and shape your writing practice so that it’s always feeding you, and writer’s block becomes a forgotten thing.

#1 Why Writing Feels Impossible (And How To Make It Fun Again)

#2 How To Write Through Tough Times

Finding the time to write is perhaps the most common gripe I hear across writer’s spaces on the internet. Family events, governmental crises, overtime work weeks, illnesses, appointments, when the heck will it ever end?

This “I have no time to write” is both a truth and a lie; a convenient refrain for procrastinators and alternately the bane of the busy writer’s existence.

But if we all take a step back and really truly examine how we’re spending our life, we may find “time” has little to do with it.

Maybe you’re just not actively prioritizing writing enough. And this is not a reflection on how much you love writing, or how committed you are.