In the jungle of daily life, writing time is hard to find. Best intentions flag in the heat, and rarely recover by morning. You want to write, you have to write, but it's just not happening and the guilt feels like monkeys howling in your chest. Job, kids, errands, friends, family, finances--the time and energy you need are nowhere to be seen.
Stop looking. When you can't find time to write, you have to make it. Hack it out of the vines; coax it down from the trees. Elmore Leonard wrote parts of his first novel, The Bounty Hunters, inside a desk drawer at the ad agency where he worked.
Read Doug's entire article Making Time to Write, Part One
Doug Kurtz, our official Writing Coach Expert
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