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  • What Helps You Stay Motivated To Continue Writing?

My suggestion would be to create a writing schedule and adhere to it as much as possible. I believe that rushing to write is too stressful and disheartening.

An even more important schedule is your sleep schedule. Not sleeping the full 8 hours and/or going to bed at different times everynight leaves you tired for the next day.

Finally, before writing the chapters themselves, write an outline of where you want your story to go, as well as a glossary with all of your importannt characters, their motivations, and some basic info. This may sound constraining but it's quite the opposite. Having a clear direction beforehand helps you stay focused on the writing itself, and being familiar with your own characters allows you to quickly write how they'll act, without the need to stop every thirty seconds to think about it.

My motivation is that Im almost done with the book. Done and then I can move to another I want to write.

Also because everytime I write, as dreading as it is, I dive into the world of my story. Its nice as you can get away from reality for a bit.

But yea main reason for me is definitely forcing myself to keep going so i can see the end of this stupid book.
Mainly because Im someone who wants to do things till the end and other part because I do enjoy what Im writing, ever so slightly

Most of the time

    Dalton_Reutlinger it is. hehehe. i write 4,500 words daily and i plan to add two more novels to that. so i'll probably be writing 7,500 words daily if those 2 novels get contracted also. i can't say that it will be easy but i'm sure that it will be fun. hehehe. writing is my passion and it also reciprocates my feelings by giving me lots of money. glhf writing! cheers!

      AJDouglas I like all sorts of novel. Others are just don't know how to appreciate others work. If in a chapter they see or read it like awful they will comment it like your novels are awful as a whole. They even not know that such awfulness sometimes are part of the scene a gimik from author to not reveal the main plot early. Others want to read immediate happy ending. And sometimes it is not readers who hate a novel of authors. it is also other authors who envy your novel. Me if I really liked the novel I cheerup the author and helping them for their novel like when I see some mispelled words or repeated statements I immediately inform them and sending them screenshots so they can immediately modify it before many readers come across on such typos.

          Don't wait for motivation.
          It's a mental thing.
          say "I just want to do 100 words."
          If you do 100 words, you'll fell like writing more, if you can't. Rest for a few minutes and do another 100.

            Don't you only get paid $0.01per 100 words? 7,000 words would only be like seven dollars or so.

              Not wanting to go crazy...seriously... I have so many ideas bouncing around that it's difficult to pull them out, but when I do...yay! Relief! Now if only I could switch from the Marvel kick back to DC...sigh 😭😭😭😭

                Dalton_Reutlinger Writing doesn't really pay unless and until you build up enough of a backlist to constantly generate royalties (or coins in this case)... that's fiction...nonfiction needs you to hustle or work for a publication...

                    Dalton_Reutlinger I have an anthology series planned so everytime I’m writing I think “Oh yeah, its all gonna come together soon.” and to me writing a novel is easier than making a webtoons cause of the amount of time I have to put into a comic is insane unlike a novel where it takes me a day to atleast write a chapter or two.

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