Accept that there will be good writing days and bad writing days

I’ve been looking through writing advice for years now. One of the pieces of advice I recently read struck a cord with me what with my current difficulties of fitting writing into my busy work life. Even GRRM has good and bad writing days it seems. It makes you think, too, that maybe all our favourite authors have bad days.

I read the advice from an article on ww.bustle.com :

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it’s dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don’t know where it’s gone … But there’s bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I’ve written three words. And half a day creeps by and I’ve written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

George R R Martin

What is the implication for me – for other writers who have to find that work – life – work balance? Accept that some days, writing will suffer. Accept it as part of writing and don’t sweat it (too much). We should give ourselves permission to be human. Only ‘almost perfect’.