As the old joke goes, I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for quite some time, but I’ve just never felt the time was right. Just like a bunch of Circuit City coupons, it takes a bit of enticement to get me to jump in the pool on a topic like this.

Truth is, though, while few seldom talk about it, procrastination makes ragdolls of us all. It’s so easy to let the hustle of everyday concerns draw us away from that which is most important to the life of any writer, and that’s time to write. When writing becomes more of a job than an aspiration, one feels tempted by just about every other activity as being more fun and more enticing than the writing task in front of them.

I think it’s just human nature to wish you could be anywhere by at work; the danger is that in most writing jobs, you don’t have a boss holding you accountable on a daily basis for showing up, completing your work and staying focused on the task at hand. It has to come from self-motivation, or not at all.