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Sep 8, 2006 at 3:02pm
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Re: Re: How do you motivate yourself?
by fkhat75 Author IconMail Icon
<indent>I tried to find the magical answer to this one too by researching what various published, and non published writers and authors do. Basically it came down to making writing a habit by writing every day (generally it takes a month of serious repetition to make or break a habit). Doesn't matter what you write about, or if you're on task, just that you write.
<indent>On the really hard days where you just feel blah, many authors suggest using a timing method of sitting down and pecking away at the keyboard, journaling, nonsense, whatever, even just blah blah blah the entire page(s). 80-90% of the time the writing just starts flowing again. That other 10-20%, they put their time in and did something else, because it just wasn't happening. I found this works really well in my own writing :)
<indent>If its that you are stuck on what to write about, many writers suggest reading a wider variety than you normally do, go out and study/eavesdrop on passersby, brainstorm, or get out and do something different.

Hope this helps :)

fwdragon75
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