I try to write every day. How do I accomplish this, you may ask?

I get up about an hour early every morning so I can do my social media and blogging for one thing. This gives me time to get everything done without rushing and I feel I’ve accomplished something before my day officially begins. I post on Facebook daily, and on Twitter. I update my Patreon and if it’s time, I work on one or more of my three blogs.

After I get home, I also try to fit in a little fiction work. OK, I usually eat dinner first. But after that, I’ll turn on something mindless to listen to, like an old Western movie or TV show I’ve seen before (so I won’t be distracted by it). Then it’s off to my real job–writing. I like to try to fit at least a page or two in before it’s time to chat with my pal in Iowa (we message each other every evening for around an hour). If I’ve just finished writing something, I may edit rather than create, but it’s all part of writing.

I write more on the weekends (if I’m not trying to clean the house). I usually try to fit in a few hours’ of work Saturdays and Sundays. That gives me some good solid word counts to work with. So that’s my writing schedule in a nutshell. If you’re willing to get up early (or stay up late), you can put in the work, too. Don’t just wait for “the muse” to strike–if you don’t have a writing schedule of some kind, you’re not going to get much done in the long run.