Self-discipline

What is that phrase: If it were easy to do, everyone would . I set myself the task of 're-vamp' writing 2 hours a day on the opus 'Masterly Inactivity' (working title) . Once I could have done that no problem---sat there , tea in hand , busy little fingers tapping away; but I find now that I'm in an unstructured workday and the day itself is a blank canvas with all sorts of attractive potential and possibilities , it's more of a grind than I'd thought. I 'm just beginning , after about 2 weeks of really starting into my edits , I'm finally making a bit more headway than I was at first. Slowly inserting pertinent information, as mystery novels seem to require at least 4 suspects , I'm 'beefing' up minor characters into the red herrings they are meant to be , but in general, in cozy mysteries it's hard to give much depth to these characters and their 'speaking parts' are usually minimal. However , one 'fudges' along ....