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Keeping up motivation when writing (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by markus@literature.cafe to c/writing_lounge@literature.cafe

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Do you have any tricks to keep up motivation when writing?

As an example, one thing I do is write whatever I have an idea for at the moment, regardless of whether I've written any of the text before or after.

I used to believe I had to figure out a lot more stuff before I could start writing "properly", but it caused me to lose the motivation since I never got to that point.

Writing whatever is in my head at the moment allows me to get going, and fuels me to keep going even after the immediate idea has been brought to paper.

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[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I write for myself, not others. I try not to worry about what others might think when they read my story. I try not to care about any typos and grammatical errors and misused words. Those worries are for when I'm editing my draft. I also remind myself that no story starts great, it doesn't matter if your draft is terrible. You just need to write something. You can improve what you wrote later, but you do need some kind of foundation to build upon.