Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. EUGÈNE DELACROIX - Julia Cameron

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction — which is naive and misplaced — that being published has to do with being “good” while not being published has to do with being “amateur.” ...

“Did you write today?”
“Yes.”
“Then you’re a writer today.”
It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It’s not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.
A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final “credit” must come from.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano/act/paint/write a decent play?” Yes ... the same age you will be if you don’t. So let’s start.