I have written nothing in a month.

Well, nothing if you don't include this blog, a plethora of Facebook posts and many forms, emails and letters for the day job. 

I have ideas percolating inside my head, and plenty of things to say, but I can't seem to get my butt in the chair and WriteWay open long enough to get words on the page. Of course, it's been quite a month.  It has included, among other things, starting a diet (hey, I've lost 5 pounds), feeding an addiction to Glee on Netflix, two weeks of 90+ temps in a house without air conditioning, and a car wreck.   

Yes, it was a tough month, but these are all just excuses, and I know it.  Recently I heard an interview with Nora Ephron on NPR.  She said:

"You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it."

It resonated with me, maybe because I had a bitter taste of my own mortality this month, but also because I really do love to write.  Yet I have been putting off writing because there is always something more important to be done first, and there will always be time later, right?  Well, what if there's not?

So I am making a commitment today to pull up Write or Die for 15 minutes every day.  Once I start, I am fairly sure I can manage more than 15 minutes, but if not, that's okay too.  I will let you know next time how it's going, but in the meantime, please wish me luck.

What about you?  What do you do to get your butt in the chair?

Marin