How do you keep up motivation/rekindle the flame to continue toward your writing dreams?

Leyelle 2024-08-19 15:54:52 UTC #21

Just got through watching Emma Enchanted again, I gotta get into the quirky fantasy writing headspace for my new novel right?

Lol, that's not why, but Prince Char did inspire the classic prince like energy/look I decided to give Christopher George

Leyelle 2024-08-22 15:06:03 UTC #22

My little siblings continue to be my saving grace helping me out of writer's block lol, and i really don't know what I'd do without the.

Ya'll can thank them for so many of the ideas that make "Crystal Blue" what it is

skipperdoesathing 2024-08-22 19:06:49 UTC #23

I also 'can't NOT write'... the problem is, I tend to write the start to a million stories and never finish them.

When I started Believe In Me, I swore that I would finish it. And I just scheduled the release of the last page in chapter 3!

My update schedule really helps motivate me, because i'm very good at having 'well, i need to do this' stuck in my head and not questioning it. But mainly it's when people comment and/or subscribe that makes me motivated <3 I love here y'all like my silly little alien story!!

Leyelle 2024-09-12 13:45:45 UTC #24

congratulations, and yeah, I do the same thing sometimes, starting too many pieces and not finishing them. It can be a curse to be so inspired eh? lol

MelancholicOtaku 2024-09-12 16:59:55 UTC #25

I honestly want to see one of my stories completed. I have the bad habit of getting started on a story but later down the line losing interest. For some reason my current novel is the one story so far where I get excited coming up with new characters, wondering how am I going to the mystery of the story. Coming up with new locations for our characters to travel too. Writing what I see I my mind .
Yeah I’ll still get writers blocked but after writing one random sentence the flame is rekindled.

Leyelle 2024-10-05 16:08:21 UTC #26

i legit just noticed this picture and wondered, is this martial arts or a chicken taking a dust bath? maybe both?

Kaira_Loi 2024-10-05 16:23:13 UTC #27

too stubborn to quit.

Leyelle 2024-10-30 18:52:51 UTC #28

Mental Soup has been helping me work through burnout because it's literally just a mental dump site with no deadlines or artistic limitations/requirements. It's definitely more freeing than my other series.

Leyelle 2024-11-28 14:23:23 UTC #29

art trades and drawing other people's ocs has helped me a lot to climb out of artistic ruts. I feel like my art often improves more when i draw other people's ocs than when i draw my own. maybe it's because I take it more seriously

simplykit 2024-11-29 21:22:16 UTC #30

I absolutely, positively, whole heartedly... do... NOTHING!

I do it when i feel like it

or maybe when the next pandemic comes lololololololooooolll

skidiggy 2024-11-29 23:41:09 UTC #31

Came back to this thread to remind myself to keep going. Got a bit of burnout and need a boost to finish my next chapter. Anyone else feelin' the burn lately?

@Leyelle was kind enough to draw one of my OCs (Aranthus from "Of Lowlifes, Lutes, & Liars"), and that got me out of a funk for days. Been riding that dopamine high for a while; thanks again!

Leyelle 2024-12-25 15:10:33 UTC #32

It's been a minute since I've been on this thread, and I know you know I was feeling burnout when I drew Aranthus, but I hope you're feeling better and more motivated now!

Leyelle 2024-12-25 15:16:58 UTC #33

Lately a lot of my inspiration has come from my desire to express more different kinds of beautiful women through my art. I'm really passionate about this, so it's been inspiring me a lot lately.

skidiggy 2024-12-26 02:57:36 UTC #34

Absolutely! The ideas are coming much easier now, thank you! I just love your drawing of Aranthus; he's perfect!

eternityoz 2024-12-27 06:58:00 UTC #35

For myself, I have extremely lofty dreams of becoming one of the best web novel writers due to how long I've been brainstorming and laying out my overall story. Of course, working on it for so long has led to times where I've felt hopeless and futile due to a lack of results from starting out as a nobody online.
Now for the transition, my greatest motivation is honestly to just keep writing and reading. I easily get fixated on works I love, so reading and rereading my biggest inspirations has made me re-realize the end goals I'm striving for. Meanwhile, simply forcing myself to sit down and write even just a few paragraphs of a chapter, even when I'm really not feeling like doing anything related to writing, can spark a similar sense of fixation on my own work, as I'm reminded of how far my own work can go if I just keep trying.

Shameless plug :3