Advice to Self

I will write this as if I am writing it to someone else.

As if I am a wise writer that has a series of credits and published works and all the awesome things that the real grinders do.

At a writer's conference these past few days I got to hear poet and thinker Diana Goetsch repeat the same things that Pressfield wrote about in the War of Art.  Now, that does not mean she copied the ideas, certainly not.  Her presentations were fantastic and certainly well received by the audience.  But the idea that a writer is supposed to write is often not mentioned enough at these conferences.  I think many show up wanting a magic pill to pop that will suddenly motivate them to write more.  She stated the obvious... writers need to write. 

It seems the pill is to sit down in a chair (I am on couch) and write.  But there are so many reasons to stop.  The dog needs love, kids need to talk, food needs cooked, work needs done... so many reasons not to write.

I tried to find the the post on the NaNoWriMo page, but so many people post on there it has been buried in ancient history now...  But a lot post as if it is not fair that some people have time to write.  How many stories do we need to hear from writers when they first started about where and how they had to squeeze in writing moments?  But so many say they want to write yet don't.

Do not think me bashing on them.  I am often one of them.