But it's hard. I have a number of topics sitting in my back pocket because, although I may care very much about some of them, I don't think that I can do them justice. I've forced myself to write on a few of them, and they haven't turned out poorly, but they have also in no way truly said what I would have liked them to say. These short 15-45 minutes that I use to write these posts is not enough time to fully craft the message that I would like to send.
The irony is that it is only due to these enforced short periods of time that I get any writing done at all. I have heard that creativity cannot be forced, and yet that is exactly what I try to do on a daily basis. The thing is that it has worked. Forcing myself to write by giving some sort of enforceable deadline has been the only way that I have finished some of the larger projects that I have done (look under Fictional Writings).
It does, however, have to enforceable in some way. For my screenplays, I told people that I would complete the main draft during my spring breaks, and because I didn't want to let people down, I got it done. For the novel, I was fully prepared to pay one of my friends money if I didn't get it done by the artificial deadline. Despite her insistence that she wouldn't take it, it was largely the idea that I would have to give up money due to my lazy inertia that made me complete the novel.
I find that creativity can be forced. It might not be of the best quality, but I believe that it is still better than achieving nothing at all.