As an accomplished writer, many people ask me "Specular, how can I become as successful as you, enlightening the world while gratifying their base needs for entertainment?"

This is what I tell them about my writing process.  

1. Procrastinate. This is an important step. Do not skip. Ever.
2. Repeat first step, but make sure you add guilt. The guilt is a currency you'll exchange later for a prize. So don't skimp on the guilt, or you might not earn a reward.
3. Repeat second step, but add rationalization.  If you did the second step properly, the guilt you're suffering from should be approaching crippling levels. This is counter-productive. Having lived through the torment, you now need to lessen your anguish. Come up with a chintzy reason as to why you did not write. Make it convincing enough for your close confidants, but not so convincing you actually believe it.
4. Exercise.  Think about what you would be writing if you were writing, not riding (or whatever less euphonic exercise you're pursuing).
5. Shower. Serves no purpose except to make you itch less while you do the next step. Unless you have people living with you, in which case it may make repeating this entire process possible without being thrown out.
6. Write the stuff you thought about while riding. It will be good. You will write for hours and finish exhausted.
7. Believe your own hype about how good what you've written is. This is the prize, and the more guilt you built up in stage two, the better the hype will feel.
8. Realize that the hype is hype and edit. This is a dangerous step, as it might lead to work that lives up to the hype. However, when you return to step three, you'll need to have done this.
9. Despair  about your ability to achieve your goals. Focus particularly on whatever aspects of your writing are both the weakest and most endemic to your personal writing style. This step is vital. Without out it, you might not be able to return to step one. You might be cursed with weeks of productive writing. Productive writing will inevitably lead to the worst of all possible of outcomes, a finished transcript. In which case you will have to accept it cannot be published. You don't want that, so quickly fortify yourself with a realistic appraisal of your skills and cultivate doubt.

 Remember, you can embrace failure now or have it forced upon you. The choice is yours, but the former always goes down easier than the latter.