Writing: Get Motivated to Write

Have you lost your motivation for your writing? Unfortunately this can happen at any time in your writing career. The reasons this happens vary; here’s how to get back on track.

1. Tap Your Creativity: What’s Fun for You to Write?

Often the reason you’ve lost your motivation is that your writing has ceased to be fun for you. It’s amazing that when you send an article query, you’re very eager to write the article, but a week later, when the editor calls you and gives you the go-ahead, you suddenly become completely unmotivated. You’re blocked.

This happens when you develop resistance. (We’ll discuss resistance in a moment.)

If you’re suddenly blocked on a writing task, it’s time to tap your creativity. Ask yourself what would be fun to write. Make a list. Start the list in this way “it would be fun for me to write ___________”

Make the list as long as you can.

2. Resistance Has Meaning: What’s Holding You Back?

Resistance to writing, that is procrastinating on a writing task, always has meaning. The meaning is rarely obvious. You can find out why you’re resisting a writing task very easily.

Set a timer for 10 minutes, grab a writing pad and pen, and start writing with this phrase: “I don’t feel like writing because___________”

Write without removing your pen from the paper, just write anything that comes to mind. After about four minutes you’ll get to the reason you’re procrastinating. Don’t be surprised at what comes out. When you remove the reason for your procrastination (just writing about it may remove it) you’ll be able to get back to writing, and you’ll write easily.

3. Shush! Talking About Your Writing Often Kills Motivation

Many professional writers make it a rule never to discuss their works in progress. This is a good rule. You can waste the energy you should be used in writing by talking about it.

4. Study and Learn: the More You Know, the More You Can Write

You can become unmotivated when you don’t know enough about a topic, or when you’re bored with what you’ll currently writing about.

Learn something new. You can learn to sky dive or bake a cake: what you learn doesn’t matter. However, you should discover that the mere fact that you’ve learned something new will inspire you to write.

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