To write is to live

I think that this blog has suffered greatly from outside duties and that makes me think very hard on a subject that has become particularly important in my final semester of college. Any writer who has ever actually tackled the unanswerable question of "how to write" has said the same thing. Write, write a lot, write every day, write until your hands fall off. This is certainly a valid point, but lets talk straight for a bit. We all have an obscene number of demands on our time, for those of you who do not I offer my endless spite, and so it is quite difficult to pull out the time to write something, and if we do write something, we often don't want to write for EVERYTHING that we are obligated to write for. I know when I write my assignments and work on a story I really don't feel like blogging anymore. It often becomes just easier to be enraptured by other people's stories so I spend the time I probably should be writing for this blog that I did intend to commit myself to playing video games or reading. Now, there's nothing wrong with reading and any writer should spend a good amount of time reading. Reading teaches just as much about writing as writing does, honestly. The point here is writing, however.
The truth is that anyone who really wants to write should write a great deal in whatever form possible. Get with a system, like writing a certain amount of pages a day or for a certain time. I'll admit I have a bad tendency to not follow through on this myself, but I honestly tell you it's true.
For those of you who, like me, have difficulties with this I suggest things like writing groups or Nanowrimo. (National Novel Writer's Month) Even if you just meet your buddies in the pub for a few hours one night a week, you're writing.