Welcome to MangaRaiders! Glad to see you're already engaged in a spirited conversation with Suuper!
I totally agree that you can always find a little time to be creative! I'm a writer first and foremost (or, entirely one might say), but my world was revolutionized when I discovered google docs for my phone. It definitely took some time to get used to (and I am certainly slower with my thumbs than a real keyboard), but being able to work anywhere I have signal really is life changing. The real hurdle is just committing to it at any one moment. You have to make the active decision to write instead of just looking at memes for 5 minutes.
Thanks!
The trick to committing is understanding that motivation doesn't just come out of nowhere. That's what changed my life, I'm really lazy, so when I was younger I'd always procrastinate and think "I'll just watch this series until I get in the mood for drawing", I'd get really mad because I had no motivation, which lead to depression and anxiety but one day, I went to a talk in a private convention and some director was talking about the motivational issue and how our generation's thinking on that subject is flawed.
He mentioned that motivation comes after doing something and it snowballs after that, things as simple as cooking your lunch could snowball into a finished work. That's how I see motivation, if you just stay still and don't commit to something you'll never find motivation, you have to start something no matter how simple it is to get the will to do something else that requires more motivation. This was something that was hard to understand because people just kept saying "you just have to push yourself to do stuff", and my answer would always be "how do I do that if I have zero motivation?". Until I understood that motivation is something you create, not something that comes naturally, I couldn't commit.
With that line of thinking I started to have a day plan that pushed my motivation. For starters I treat myself to a coffee every single day, but while I did it at home usually which lead me to just chill watching something on tv, I changed it to going to a coffee shop, takes some money but it's worth it, I bring my sketch book and brush pen every day, and without even thinking about it I resort to drawing "just to pass the time" as I say because I limited every distraction possible that I had at home.
This usually leads to ideas popping off or finding something interesting outside, yesterday I encountered a man with a crazy beard style so I drew a bunch of characters based on him and wrote some stories. Whenever I come home I don't even want to watch tv shows, if I start to watch them or read stuff online I get really triggered because I have the itch to draw or paint based on what I achieved previously during my coffee.
In case that doesn't happen in the morning I have other plans that put me in a spot that makes me draw unconsciously. Motivation is also a product of the environment.
What made me realize these things was actually looking back. When I was in school whenever the teacher was talking I was doodling, but I can't do that at home because there's too many interesting things to pass the time.
Knowing yourself is important in that regard, I never feel tired because I'm always motivated, whenever I feel tired instead of taking a break from work I just work on a different thing (I always have 3 projects that I keep separated at the same time), that way I always feel refreshed. Took me a while to actually do this because I'm bad at organizing stuff, but I keep everything about each project written down, that way I can juggle between them without the fear of forgetting something. I can dive right in to each project because I can read my notes about it. I used to do it in docs like you, but I switched to a traditional format, since information piles up when I look at them I can see the amount of work I already done, which also gives me motivation. That said for scripts and the likes I use scrivener, but I always print them out when I'm done.
My issue now is actually the opposite, my sleep schedule is really bad because every now and then I just work 2 days straight without sleeping, it got to the point that it's unhealthy (I lost a lot of weight) and I have to take pills to sleep.