I struggle with productivity every day. Today was good, though. Every time I found myself reaching for my phone or opening Facebook I asked myself, “is this how you want to spend your time?” It was basically like slapping myself on the hand every time I focused on something other than my writing. Anyway, as a result I wrote a 1,500-word essay. It’s not very good and there’s a great chance it’ll never be published, but hey — I wrote something! Gotta start somewhere.