Writer's Fallout Shelter

There's a lot of valuable reasons for writing every day.

You'd be surprised how much you can accomplish, how quickly you can finish a longer work, by adding just 500 words to it every day. Forward motion is good. It keeps the story fresh in your mind. When you work on it every day, you don't lose track of the storyline, you keep it moving forward -- again, always a good thing -- and you'd be surprised what you discover by staying connected to the story. So many beginning writers only work when the muse moves them and that is the wrong way around. It puts the muse in charge and you, the writer, do not work for her. She works for you. If you turn up routinely at your keyboard, she will routinely turn up, too.

Writing is a craft and takes skill. To develop those things requires consistent practice and training. To succeed as a writer requires discipline, the ability to put butt in chair and write to deadline, even when you'd rather be any place else, doing anything else. By training yourself to write every day now, you are working on your craft and gaining the discipline necessary to move to the next level. Whether or not you want to do this professionally, you do want to develop and grow, don't you?

Working on plotlines, character sketches, notes of description, and things like that are all well and good but can quickly become an excuse not to write, another form of procrastination.

So, yeah, I think you should try the writing every day thing again. Keep your goals realistic, but have goals and treat the writing like an obligation.

As an added bonus, many of the writers I know report that when they do write every day, they are nicer, happier people.