Writing > Life Changes

While watching the morning news earlier this week, I saw a car commercial that had the simple math equation with the > (greater than) sign. They had several of them, one of which was adventure > daily. What caught my attention was the last one: now > never. 

What my life is like now:

Inspiration  > Time

Distractions > Solitude

For those of you who read last month's post, what's going on now is polar opposite. I'm rushed and distracted. Therefore I've been out of sorts and moody. It can't be entirely because of the rain or the beginning of daylight saving's time.

Then it dawned on me... 

My husband and I have had some more life changes this year. In fact, we've had a lot of them since we moved back to Knoxville in 2018. The more we've had, the more I've been challenged to stay focused on writing. This is a problem; I need to figure out how to solve it.

I realized this in a conversation I had with a friend, who's also a writer...

I had loads of time when I first started writing. Back then, I wrote loads of words in each book. I was was also overwhelmed: what advice am I going to heed to improve my craft?

I've now refined my writing; it's now clearer.  That's an accomplishment considering all I've been through over the past few years. It must mean something to me; my fight for my right to write is on a higher level now. I refuse to quit because of the daily frequent interruptions I hadn't had until now.

I know in time, my writing time will be restored and will look more like this:

Writing > Life changes

Writing now > Writing later

Solitude > Distractions