Are you having fun yet?
How do you feel when you’re heading to work? Are you excited? Are you anxious? Are you looking forward to it or dreading it?
Everyday when I head into my office to start my work day I can’t wait to get going. I make a list of all that I need to do that day, prioritize them, and get started. I put all the most dull work first to be sure that I get that done. But I’m itching to getting back to my writing (what I almost always do last in my day both because I get to anticipate it all day and because my creativity is at its best from about 3pm).
All right, perhaps you don’t work in publishing full-time like I do (I format books, edit, and coach writers in addition to writing my own books). So, if you work at another job as well as your writing, are you anxious to get back to the writing at the beginning or end of your day (whenever you have the time to get down to it)?
You will never meet an author who will tell you that writing is a breeze. Oh, there are books that “seem to write themselves.” Nonetheless, writing is hard! It’s really hard work. If you’re a plotter, you’ve got all that plotting to do and character examination to figure out and then you hope that your characters do what you planned for them to do. If you’re a pantser, you may be worrying about what you’re going to write next because you’re not quite sure where this story is going to go.
