Where is my Motivation?

By aimi_aiko · Nov 25, 2012 · 824 · 3
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  1. I'm wanting to start writing again.

    It's a habit...feeling the need to have my fingers dance across the keyboard because it feels good...it feels right. Even if I'm just posting statuses on FaceBook or replying to forum threads...writing blogs. Even if it's not (technically) a story in which I am eager to be writing. My issue is...I don't even know the story to write one. Where is my motivation? My inspiration? Something I've been searching for for months now, and I have yet to find. My inspiration is there...at the back of my head, but my motivation is something that has been failing me for quite some time now. I've been thinking about writing a little fanfic just to get the juices going, but something about using characters that's already been created by someone else has always felt like "copying" someone's work (in my opinion).

    I don't know...

    *thinks*

    ...to return.
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  1. Fife
    Maybe you should do little writing exercises. Calling it an "exercise" takes off some of the pressure, I think. Just take a few random things from different corners of your life (or different corners of your Facebook) and try to write a short story about how those items would interact or mesh together. It may not become the most inspirational story, but at least you will be writing something. It's just keeping the habit of forming ideas.
    Fife, Nov 29, 2012
  2. Mckk
    The only way out is to write. I spent a month completely lacking motivation - I didn't even care about my novel, I don't believe in writer's block but in that moment I was wondering if I was wrong and I've got a block.

    In the end, you just write. Even if it's mechanical, you write. You write until you hit that gem you've been looking for - you have to dig and dig and dig and scrape through all the rubbish rock before you find your diamond sometimes.

    For me that worked 'cause I have a novel going. If you have nothing, the other solution is read - read something fun, something that thrills you, makes you happy, makes you laugh, makes you tense. Read, and find the thrill of stories again, and find your inspiration in all the thousands of little gems you'll come across by reading what you love - and pretty soon you'll find something you want to write.
    Mckk, Nov 30, 2012
  3. TALLULAH
    This quote has become my mantra:
    "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:

    Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!'"

    ~W.H. Murray, Scottish Himalaya Expedition 1951
    TALLULAH, Dec 8, 2012
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