Obligers
If you need accountability, get it. Join a writers’ group or class where you’re expected to hand in work; work with a writing coach; post a schedule where your family members will see it; recruit a friend to read your drafts. ( Obligers, you know you need it! Do not skip this step!) One writer told her son, “You have your homework, and I have my homework—which is working on my novel. When you’re working on your homework, I’ll work on my homework. If I’m not doing my homework, you don’t have to do yours.” Her son watched her every day, hoping to get a day off.