Everyone says writing skills are like muscles... use 'em or lose 'em.

Well, I'll be the first to stand up and say I don't like using my muscles, either. I'm a couch-potato at heart. Therefore, even knowing I should write every day to keep my writing skills sharp, I don't always do it.

At least, I didn't realize that I was writing every day. I thought I had to write fiction or book chapters to be "writing." The fact of the matter is, this is the information age of e-mails, text-messaging, instant messaging, blogs, message boards and the like. Based on this, I do write every day. I express myself, possibly, even more in type than I do verbally. It's the nature of business.

So, this assuages my writing every day guilt just a bit. Now, all I have to do is try and wax poetic when forwarding e-mails and discussing The Amazing Race 5 on message boards.