Make your choice
"there is the problem of still maintaining a social life which kicks the weekend in the balls"

Well, tough. If you want to have a social life, and you want to pay a mortgage, and you want to write something, you're going to have to make a sacrifice somewhere, because you're not going to do all of these. Particularly if they're really excuses for not writing the great masterwork. However, since your profile says your occupation is lurking on B3ta, I don't think you'd lose much money if you jacked your job in.

A 9 to 5 job isn't that much. I managed to write a novel last November at the same time as pulling a 50 hour work week, without eliminating my social life, and without giving up going out and exercising. Perhaps you don't really want to do it that much. Or perhaps I didn't write a very good novel. But the great is the enemy of the good, etc etc.

If you do want to do it, change your schedule so it allows you to do these things.
Stop wasting time on B3ta.
Disconnect the television.
If you're too tired to write in the evening, get up earlier and write in the morning.
(mrweasel, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:53, Reply)