Total word count: 13,729
Words written today: 498
Writing is just like any other job or hobby, it requires sacrifice if you want to be good at it. Sometimes you sacrifice your time to write your novel, sometimes you sacrifice your novel to spend your time on something else. If you want it bad enough, you make the sacrifice, you make it a priority. Today I sacrificed some time in class to work on my novel. Yes, in class, during lecture. I can take notes and write my novel at the same time...but I will admit that I probably won't know that material as well now. I could have just listened to the lecture, instead I decided to divide my time and work on my novel. I sacrificed that part for my writing. Tonight I'll put aside my writing so I can do my homework (for advanced writing, but trust me, it's not the same). It takes time and it takes management and writing, it takes sacrifice. You don't give everything up for writing and you don't put your writing aside for everything else. You work it out, you budget your time, you figure out what's most important and what needs to be done first. That's what I did today. I wrote 498 words during class and that's all I had time for today, but maybe tomorrow I won't need to sacrifice my writing time. I can't see what tomorrow's going to hold, maybe it'll give me hours, maybe it won't. So I make sacrifices today, in case I can't make any tomorrow.
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