Motivating Myself to Keep Writing

Writing is hard. Writing well is even harder. Writing well consistently and often is still even harder. Being in grad school puts a whole new kink in the system. 
As I've said before, I dream of being a famous, successful writer. I've been writing since I could hold a pencil and I work to practice and improve my craft as much as possible. For the longest time, I wanted to write fiction novels. After taking a fiction workshop class in undergrad, I realized fiction wasn't for me, and instead developed a love for creative nonfiction. I ended up taking three semesters of creative nonfiction workshops to develop in the genre and my goal shifted toward that.
During "boot camp" at my grad program, I started scribbling a few lines of a fiction idea I'd had floating around in my head for a while. Before I knew it, "a few lines" turned into "a few paragraphs," which, by my surprise, turned into "a few pages." It was funny to me that an idea that I thought "wasn't good enough" to be a full-fledged project came out so quickly, so naturally.
After letting a few friends read my progress, they all said it was hilarious and I should keep going. I said I wish I had more time to work on it. Then I realized that if I really want to pursue it, I have to make time for it, even in my busy grad school life. 
Motivating myself to work on it daily--even just adding a paragraph or two each day--is proving difficult, but I remind myself that I can use that as my "break" when I need to step back from my homework and assignments for school. It sounds silly, but it does help. 
I know I'm a long way off from a complete first draft, and that likely won't happen while I'm in grad school. But every writer has to start somewhere. I just have to keep going. 

And one more quote, just for good measure:

"One must be a little crazy to write a good novel." -John Gardner