Always Writing

There is a moment most writers know well. A quote surfaces from a notebook or a highlighted passage, the spark of recognition returns, and an hour passes without a single new sentence written. We reach for the nearest name. Procrastination. Lack of focus. Both names are wrong, and the wrong name sends the writer looking for the wrong solution.

What I have come to understand about that moment, after years of living it and guiding writers who live it too, is that it is not a failure of discipline. It is a confusion between two things that look alike from the outside but ask completely different things of the writer.

This Tuesday on Ramos On Craft, I write about the tension between always writing and writing every day, and what it changes for the writer who finally learns to tell them apart.

The full article is waiting for you at Ramos On Writing on Substack.