The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.