I don't want to write tonight. 

It was a busy day at the office--challenging, productive, fun at times, but in the end, mentally exhausting. After that, I had my weekly saxophone lesson. Not exausting but challenging, which is what I'm paying him for.  And now it's time to work on my next book. It would be easy to say, 'take a night off, do it tomorrow, catch up on your relaxing' - the problem is, it's always easy to say that. Now I'm a clever guy, I'm sure I could come up with a dozen bullshit excuses why I don't need to write tonight. Tomorrow night I could come up with a dozen more. Yet no matter how many excuses I come up with, they're all still bullshit. 

Here's something you need to know about writing: The days you don't want to do it are the days you need to do it most. Not because what you'll write will be somehow better. Odds are it won't be. In fact, you may end up deleating it all later. But write anyway. It'll take a lot of will power to sit down and give it your best, but that's why you're a writer and not somebody who wants to be a writer. If it were easy, anybody could do it. 

Writing is about choices, and sometime the toughest ones have nothing to do with plot or character or words. 

I don't want to write tonight. But that's what I'm going to do.