I try to write every day, and some days I can blast out a couple hundred words in a few free hours, and other days my full-time job and my full-time marriage cuts my writing time down to lunch breaks and ten minutes before bed when I’m too tired to write anything coherent, anyway.
How I’ve dealt with it is this: ANY Akins of writing that I do is better than no writing st all. If I’m not able to work on my manuscript, I’ll log into Twitter and see what writing prompt threads are posting (I really like #vss365, they are a terrific community of supportive writers). Just having a word prompt with no other expectation allows me to mentally cleanse my palette and write something, even if it’s rubbish.
The important thing is that it engages my brain and keeps me working (my fingers are typing, my brain is formulating a combination of words in a specific order, etc.? So e en if I’m not writing something for my current project, I can at least engage that creative part of my brain that makes me a writer.
It’s like reviving your engine. You don’t expect to get anywhere, but it’s always useful to fire up the motor and practice going through the motions. Once, I had no phone and a ten minute break with nothing to do. I took out a pen and a napkin and started brainstorming names for my next heroes and villains.
As long as you keep writing, everything you do will help get you to the finish line.