One of the many grumblings I hear among people on social media is that they struggle with self-management = accountability. This includes sticking to goals, organization, time, attention/distraction. As lone wolves, writers are forced to rely on themselves to get the work done, however they planned it. Or didn’t plan it. Many writers set a goal and chug through till it’s accomplished. Set a new goal, chug through that till it’s accomplished. So on and so forth. Some writers do well with this, and they don’t need outside support.
Many writers who spend more time in a writing cave than out and about in the bustling world tend to have less of a handle on productivity and self-management. Speaking for myself, if I could spend all day in my nether worlds with my characters I would, dinner and kid pick-up after school be damned.
But I have real-world obligations that actually force me to step out of my cave and act like a normal person…
4am Writer 
This was a good read. I can’t decide if I am stuck in Can’t or don’t want to. I have been stuck in a rut but you have inspired me to start again, thank you.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think you’re doing the right thing by trying again. Sometimes it helps to start completely fresh, to not go back necessarily to the project you already started. This way you have a new entry point, and you won’t be influenced by anything you wrote before. Good luck!
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