Workin’ 9 to 5
Most full time authors (think J K Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Bernard Cornwell etc) will tell you that they have to treat writing as you might any other occupation: you need to have work time, and home time. Obviously if your writing doesn’t pay the bills (and, given you’re reading this, I presume that means it doesn’t), making enough time is a whole different ball game.
A good way to get 15 minutes writing in every day is to wake up early and write in bed. It may sound the opposite of what you want to do, but nobody makes it with the big boys if they’d rather get an extra 15 minutes kip that chase their dream.
Even if you can’t schedule time in every day, you should make sure that you determine a time every week and dedicate it to writing. Otherwise, it will end up being a line here and there, when you’re on the bus, or waiting for a film or on your lunch break, and you’ll end up with a million half-started poems or chapters, without any of them going anywhere.
