Less Excuses, More Writing

Yesterday was my first whole day without playing Age of Empires on the computer.  Johnny's really proud of me.  We'll see how I do today.  "One day at a time." 

I went to the midnight showing of Eclipse with my mom and sisters last night.  It's always fun to spend the evening with them and I like watching the characters from the book come to life.  The acting and directing is better than the first movie, but it's still so bad I cringed a lot.  Robert Pattinson's terrible acting of Edward forces me to be on Team Jacob.  Taylor Lautner is a much better actor, with or without the great abs. 

On to the real subject today - I'm reading a book called A Writer's Space.  It caught my eye at the book store.  I've been looking for a good place to write for a long time now.  Right now I'm sitting at my dining room table.  I used to write in the den, but JB's computer and all kinds other things are in there that pull at me.  Sometimes I sit at the kitchen table.  I've read in several places about successful authors writing in small, quiet spaces that have a door they can shut, so I designated my walk in closet as my new writing space.  I haven't done much writing in there, but my closet it really clean! 

After chatting with a friend yesterday my lack of writing came down to something very simple.  I'm not writing.  I'm using a million and one excuses to not write.  It's too loud.  It's too quiet.  It's messy.  The phone keeps ringing.  People keep bothering me.  I just need to put in one load of laundry.  I need to find an agent.  I need to find a self-publishing company.  I need to get up at 5 a.m.  I'll never get up at 5 a.m!  I'll stay up late.  I need to listen to my kids.  This friend really needs me.  I have to work.  Maybe I should get a job.  I'll be a Census taker!  I need to be secluded, in a cabin, up north, in Wisconsin, on a lake, with an Eagle in a nest 35 degrees to my right and two loons on the lake at dusk, on the glass like surface of the water.   What I need is to get over it, quit making excuses and form a writing habit, no matter what time it is, where I am, what I have to write with or what is on my schedule.  Simply, I just need to write.