Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing and can you eliminate it?

In 2010, I said everything. In 2015, I said fear. In 2016, I said that it’s sitting down and doing it.
In 2017, I said that it was work. In 2018, I said that it was lack of support. In 2019, it really was the lack of accountability. In 2020, I said that it was about losing my creative space to WFH, but it really was about setting time for it. In 2021, I said that it was work. In 2022, I said that it was the way I used my free time. In 2023, I said that it was frugality. In 2024, I said that it was distraction.

So as my coworker likes to say…to be honest, what’s up with this each day. There’s no such thing! Although if I really have to think about it, it’s about creating the space. Like actual comfortable space. The irony is that I am literally at Writing Club. A space I found through a writer that I met (at Litquake!), but I am realizing that it might not work for me. It’s like full…of guys. Which I don’t mind. Usually. But there’s something about the writing that is done here…it’s just writing? Like technical writing? It’s writing about self-promotion? I am mostly interested in actual creative writing in telling stories and the like. So I can’t help but be antagonistic and bristle at everything I don’t like. I can tell that some people who are just writing for the sake of writing. But I want to…be a creative writer.

In some ways, sure, I probably can reframe this. Any writing is worthwhile. But obviously, I am snobby. I don’t like that kind of writing. Because I also do it for work. I mean, clear out the judgement? Would that help my writing?

The thing that I can say about each day…is just about creating the space. There are many choices that I can make throughout the day. Is it going to be cooking or baking? Is it going to be watching TV? Is it going to be reading? Or just writing? And what is writing? What can writing be? And maybe the intentions are just enough.