"You should only write when you feel within you some completely new and important content, clear to you but unintelligible to others, and when the need to express this content gives you no peace."
Soon after you confront the matter of preserving your identity, another question will occur to you: “Who am I writing for?”
It’s a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. Don’t try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don’t know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they’re always looking for something new.Then, when the motivation returns, you'll have the skill to express what you really want to say.
If you're literally just doing nothing, I'd agree.
But I haven't felt the urge to write anything creatively in over 8 years. Last year, I met someone (my muse?) who sparked this desire in me.
Nowadays I spend much of me free time writing songs, lyrics and I'm working on a draft for a novel.
It's not like I do that because I expect to make money from it - it's because I have to in order to feel al peace.