Everything in my story is happening too fastThat ' s a common feature of first drafts . You ' re worrying too much about quality . It takes several rewrites to get a book to actually be good just keep going forward for now , then worry about this stuff in the second draft . <| sep |> This Music sucks <| sep |> How do you bring yourself to give up gaminggoofing off and go to work , or shower , or sleep , or eat , or spend time with family , or pay bills , or exercise , or do anything productive ? You make time for it . Get up half an hour earlier . Go to bed half an hour later . Save video games for until you ' ve finished writing for the day . Some people seem to think there ' s some magic formula to writing . There ' s not you just have to do the work .