When you're not a full time author, it's not always easy to maintain discipline and produce work on a daily basis. Most of us have to hold down regular jobs. At the end of each day, it's understandable when your brain is exhausted and all you want is to go home, eat dinner, sit in front of the TV, and relax. Maintaining a balance between one's professional life and his creative endeavors is more like a dream. In reality, this sort of balance is usually unrealistic. Paying the bills usually outweighs the desire to create without any guarantee of financial gain. This is especially true as you age, get married, and raise a family.
Sadly, I usually have to force myself to make the time and put in the effort to write. This usually involves putting aside at least an hour or two in the evenings. It could mean doing research, taking notes, writing down passages for future use, or actually typing away in the moment to progress a story. Although it's been slow going, I've been working on new material. One of the hardest parts is getting down the first chapter. Once that's done, I feel like it's less of a struggle because I've established what the rest of the story will be like.
At nights when I'm in bed trying to fall asleep, I'll start thinking about elements on whatever it is I'm writing. There are moments when I find myself getting out of bed and writing down notes so that I don't forget them. I think that if ideas are floating in your head around the time you go to bed, that's a good sign. It shows that your mind can work especially well when you channel out all of the other worries of regular life. At the same time, you need to remember to get enough sleep. Mental and/or physical exhaustion is a negative culprit for a writer. Staring blindly at the computer screen without typing does nobody good.
Even when the writing is going good, it's nearly impossible to type nonstop. There are going to be pauses. I say do what you can and just write.
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