How Do I Know What I Think Until I See What I Say?

Writer Jeff Abbott raises some good points here about making time to write. Apparently, he wrote the first novel he got published between the hours of four and seven in the morning, which makes even this early bird cringe. There's "early bird" and then there's "the sun won't be up for three hours," you know? But the point is not lost--if you want to be a published writer, you will find time to write. Hell, you will make time to write. Einstein doesn't have anything on the aspiring novelist as far as the space-time continuum goes. I am a practicing attorney, for a company that makes products you have totally bought, even if you haven't heard of us (but you've probably heard of us). Currently I bill between 200 and 250 hours a month at that job. I also teach LSAT prep 2 or 3 nights a week for The Princeton Review. And I have friends. And I date. And I walk my dog. And I go to the gym three times a week (or I try to). And I make tim