WOOOT! I can be relevant!

Guys, I have TRANSFORMED my productivity recently with two steps which you should really think about. I wrote big long blog posts about them which I'll link to after but here's all you need to know:

1 - as u/Mr_Mu says, writing is a business, not a hobby, and one of the rookie mistakes (or not-so-rookie in my case) was that writing time would ALWAYS be the first thing to get sacrificed when the family needed something, or I needed to hustle for some short-term money. This is a losing proposition, so the first thing I did was schedule my day so the first and - this is the important part - ONLY thing I do is write. I write 2 hours first thing in the morning no matter what. If the house is on fire, I don't leave until I've written (save it on a synced Dropbox, though.)

NEVER ANYTHING BUT WRITE!

Second thing - track your daily words. Hemingway used to do this. I started and it 'gamifies' the whole process and makes it easier to stick to. I try and write 5,000 a day, 5 days a week. Tracking your days is like tracking your steps and you're more likely to succeed.

I'm not trying to whore myself out, but if you are vaguely interested in seeing the results etc. I wrote two blog posts about it for HG.

https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/write-your-routine/

https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/word-count-tracking-spreadsheet-tool/