Do you treat writing as a job or hobby. That makes all the difference in the world. My will to write ebbs and flows like the tides at a beach. I go through periods of time where I write every waking moment. I cannot walk away from by chromebook, and if I do then I think about what I will write when I return to it. Then there are other times when I avoid it like the plague. I make every excuse I can so as to not write. Unfortunately the I do not feel like writing periods far outweigh the I want to write periods. Why is that?
Well I have been thinking about this and I think I have an answer. At least an answer that pertains to me. I think it’s something that a lot of people can identify with. To me writing is a hobby. What does that mean? Well to me a hobby is something you want to do. Something I do in my spare time. Something I do to both relax and to spend some of my valuable time on.
Once I start to treat it as a job I no longer look at it the same way. Now I am not so relaxed. Its a job I have to do it well. I have to produce something.
See what I mean? It makes a difference, work or hobby. How you treat your writing as well as your personality will make the difference. I spend 7-10 hours a day, five days a week at my day job. It takes on average 1 ½ hours to drive home from my job. By the time I have dinner and help my wife clean up its always at least 8:00 every evening. That does not leave me much time for a second job or a hobby.
Well that's my problem and I’m sure its a problem for countless others. How you handle will differ but it has to be handled if you are to succeed. I choose to still consider writing a hobby. In that way I will produce maybe not as much as some others but at least I will enjoy what I am doing. Maybe as time goes on I will change how I think, but for now I choose to call this my hobby.