Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: KMH Stone (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: 08-27-08 19:29
I am finding it particularly difficult progressing with my novel right now, especially with having to work long hours in a office. Where do find the motivation?
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Rich DeRuvo (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: 08-27-08 19:50
Sometimes I don't but I just recently said to myself "500 words in the morning and 500 at night". It may not be good but once you start you'll see that after a few hundred words you aren't trying anymore. You have to discipline yourself, it's not easy but you can do it.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Ray Veen (---.sub-70-210-110.myvzw.com)
Date: 08-27-08 23:06
I have a good job, but it's not my dream job. The other night I was catching some lady's diarrhea in a cup and I almost threw up. So my job is my motivation.
When I grow up, I want to be a writer.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Nan Hammond (---.nagasaki.ocn.ne.jp)
Date: 08-28-08 00:37
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I soooo wanna ask but... its just so much more fun imagining what it is you do....
MUAHHAHAH
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: stevenlabri τΏτ (---.dsl.mindspring.com)
Date: 08-28-08 07:46
You don't find motivation, it finds you. If you want to write, if you can write, you will.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: larry moses (---.dhcp-12.197.60.49.choice.vi)
Date: 08-28-08 08:08
I find the motivation by imagining a big, fat check in my hand. I find the motivation by seeing my novel turned into a film. I find the motivation by being recognized as that bestseller writer. And then I write. I bust my chops using my imagination and just write until I have typed a little over 300 pages. Now, it's back to the writing pad for me.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: larry moses (---.dhcp-12.197.60.49.choice.vi)
Date: 08-28-08 08:09
Also, if you write 10 pages a day, you'll have 100 pages in ten days. I focus on that also and it motivates me.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: A.L. Sirois (155.91.28.---)
Date: 08-28-08 08:31
I have to write, I dunno, I am impelled. If I don't I get... weird. Same thing if I don't play music. My mental health demands that I do these things.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: leslee (---.lsl-la.com)
Date: 08-28-08 12:01
I never feel motivated to write. I only feel inspired. Either the inspiration comes or it doesn't.
"Motivation" is what I use to get out of bed in the morning, work a job and get a paycheck. No inspiration involved there.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Ray Veen (---.sub-70-212-55.myvzw.com)
Date: 08-28-08 12:11
Nan - I'm a surgical technologist. Normally it's not my job to catch poo, but it kept squirting and squirting and somebody had to do something, so... I grabbed a cup and held it down there. Nice huh?
So to clarify: motivation-wise, I have this pretty sure feeling that I wasn't destined to be a poo catcher. The dry heaves only confirmed that.
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Nan Hammond (---.nagasaki.ocn.ne.jp)
Date: 08-28-08 22:43
O.O
*is gonna have poo images all day*
My motivation comes from the incredibly mundane. I find everyday life so boring, writing tends to be my outlet. Its so much more interesting pretending and making stuff up!
^.^v
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Re: Where do you find the motivation to write? |
Author: Aaron Brown (---.rit.reuters.com)
Date: 08-29-08 09:56
My motivation mostly comes from other writers. The published ones, that is. I'm a fantasy/sci-fi guy, so I get inspired by writers like Robin Hobb, Steven Erikson, George Martin, Robert Jordan (rip), you know, the big names. But I get motivated by guys like Brandon Sanderson--someone who can write a good book, but when I read it I think, I bet I could write a better story. What motivates me is knowing in my gut I can write a better story than a lot of the published authors I read. So I get up at 6, go to work, get home at 4, and try to carve out a 2 hour block of writing while splitting the rest of my time between 4 kids and a wife.
Sometimes the pull of family is very strong, and I don't write the whole time. But I feel suficiently guilty enough for not writing for 2 hours that I make it up on the weekends.
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