Publication of your research is the only tangible record to the outside world that you have completed a research project. By the time you graduate, you should have about three publications. Take the initiative and write the first draft of your paper. Use published papers as models for your paper. Pick good papers from the literature and study them.
Research takes time.
Set up a research schedule and keep it as if it were a class. Everyone is very busy. There is a definite tendency to allow other activities to crowd out time for research. Research takes planning. Plan your experiments in advance.