Some time ago, I found
on a blog
this quotation that quite fits my writing activities
(or lack thereof, much too often,
for some
important document of mine):
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. . . . Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
-- E. L. Doctorow