Here it is. The last, definitive, thing we can say about “how can I find time to write?”
Jay Lake is a prolific writer. He’s also undergoing a 16 week [Edit- Jay corrected me- 24 weeks of chemo (12 sessions biweekly)] chemotherapy treatment. Here’s what he wrote today.
I am a writer, so I write. I write because I want to, because I need to, and right now, I write most of all to deny cancer the place it wants to take at the center of my life.
Jay also cut television and gaming out of his life so he could write. Learn more about that in the interview I did with him last fall.
Listen. You don’t find time. You make time. You decide what’s important to you, and you do it. Everything else is details.
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so true, Mur. There are never enough hours in the day, but you do it anyway.
Amen, Mur. Writers write. Inspirational!
That’s what puts me in the chair (mostly) every day: the conviction that I’m a writer, because that’s what I want to do, and writers write, so I do. Even if I’m having A Day. Even if whatever I write turns out to be crap with a capital crap. It’s about the journey, not the destination. Well, the destination’s important too, but to get there, you have to get on the bus.
Well-wishes for Jay Lake, and good on him for pushing through what must be a very big blockade to his life, let alone his writing.