Wait, it's 2016 already?

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Lodratio, it sounds like you're having a tough time balancing between visual art and written art.  I am struggling with a similar thing - balancing my time between improving my visual art skills with improving my written art skills for my comic book script.

Allow me to share with you a breakthrough I had recently.  Please take it or leave it I won't be offended either way.

Now for the post part of this year my writing had taken taken a back seat behind my efforts to improve my drawing and painting skills.

But a random reply by someone on my twitter feed started a small pebble rolling that has now turned into a rolling stone.  For this guy on twitter it was probably just a quick shot in the dark but it turned out to impact me in a significant way so I will pass this on in case it helps.

He said that I don't need to drop my writing altogether and that I should just do small chunks every day which still promotes growth and can still be fun.

I gave this a go and started off in a small way and just did maybe 10mins every day. 

At first it was a shear act of will to just spend 10mins thinking about my writing (not even actually physically writing).  But then as the small steps of progress added up to something more significant the feelings of excitement and motivation followed and I really felt like I wanted to get this stuff written down.

What I found was that my motivation started to build as the ideas started flowing again and now the visual art to written art split is more like 70% visual to 30% written.

So what I'd like to share with you is this:  Exert your will first and then your feelings will follow.

Hope this helps, please disregard if it doesn't but good luck anyway my friend.