If your goal is to do some writing every day, invariably, just like with exercise, one day you'll wake up fatigued. Only when the muscles are sore after long days of exercise and by simply being sore stop you from moving, quite often your brain isn't capable of stopping you (my case), and as part of your writing routine you need to learn to recognize this fatigue. To learn to stop. To learn to give your brain a rest.

And it really does need rest, to recharge.

There are those pockets of downtime you don't know how to fill.

A minute here. Two minutes there. It's very convenient to pull out your phone and kill those minutes by scrolling through some posts or pictures.

What if for that one minute or two you allowed your mind to wander?

It can be anything: word count, page count, minutes of writing (or hours of writing), number of ideas, cups of coffee consumed, an amount of times of hitting your head on the wall...you get the drift.

Once you set your goal, chip away at it EVERY DAY.

We tend to forget that when we talk, more of the information we relay is presented in the form of the facial and body movements. We don't really listen to the one speaking, we watch them.

This is the fundamental difference between writing and talking, and the reason why it seems so deceptively easy to write (anyone can do it!) and yet is so incredibly hard (why does everything I write down sucks?).

Writing is not the same as talking.

Most of the time when you don't what to write about is when you're afraid it won't be perfect.

Develop the discipline to write even when you don't feel like it. If your aim is to make it your full time profession and to make money, there will be good days, and there will be shitty days, and on all of those days you'll have to write.