Keep Your Writing Time Sacred

Generally speaking, this blog is a place for the profane and unholy. Not like, in an intentional way. I’m just a secular girl who was raised in a secular home and now leads a perfectly secular life. Even so, your writing time is sacred, and you should keep it that way.

I don’t know a single writer who doesn’t want more time to write.

I also don’t know a single writer who hasn’t wasted precious writing time doing shit that didn’t matter.

I’m included in that group. Sometimes I look at all the notebooks I have full of ideas for books or essays and wonder if I’ll ever get around to writing them. Then, I try not to think about how easy it has been to get around to mindlessly scrolling on the internet.

Sometimes writing is the best feeling in the world. Sometimes, it really fucking sucks.

But guess what? Even when it sucks, your writing time is still sacred.

Your Writing Time Matters

Yeah, there are tons of tools that you can use to write. I’ve talked a lot about my writer’s notebook, and I’ve even shared how I use my Traveler from Freewrite.

But neither of those things really matter if I don’t make time to actually write. And while we’re at it-we aren’t actually making time, are we? I mean, like, you…