Lofty ambitions, zero motivation
Aug. 25th, 2005 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fencerm2How do you reclaim motivation?
There are so many things I want to be doing...and my current motivation is zero.
What is up with that? There is nothing wrong with my life right now, per se...so why do I have no energy, no desire to move forward on those things I want in motion?
I mean, some writer I'm turning out to be...its been far longer than I'd care to admit since I wrote something new...and I have been stuck on my current round of edits of my novel in the same spot for about a month or more now. Why can't I move this onwards? Why am I not writing?
This is the kind of rant I usually don't share - this is the sort of thing that goes into the paper journal. But I think I am putting this here because I am wondering if this is just me...or if there is something in the air? Not that that matters, really...its up to me to do what I need to do.
Blah. That's where I am at. Just...blah.
There are so many things I want to be doing...and my current motivation is zero.
What is up with that? There is nothing wrong with my life right now, per se...so why do I have no energy, no desire to move forward on those things I want in motion?
I mean, some writer I'm turning out to be...its been far longer than I'd care to admit since I wrote something new...and I have been stuck on my current round of edits of my novel in the same spot for about a month or more now. Why can't I move this onwards? Why am I not writing?
This is the kind of rant I usually don't share - this is the sort of thing that goes into the paper journal. But I think I am putting this here because I am wondering if this is just me...or if there is something in the air? Not that that matters, really...its up to me to do what I need to do.
Blah. That's where I am at. Just...blah.
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:42 pm (UTC)I know you're writing on your blog, and that's good.. but maybe you can try a personal journal that no one reads but you. Put down a few thoughts and ideas and it. Maybe write a few paragraphs to another book.
Thing is, you don't want to get stuck in a rut. You're moving forward with one project, but that doesn't preclude you from working on another one. Maybe a different genre, maybe something that isn't going to be published commercially, but locally -- scaish??
Writing is like working out, the more you do it, the easier it is to do the next day...
FWIW, I don't write enough.. I used to... Well, on a good (bad?) note, I write more than I go to the gym... so at least there is some sort of accomplishment. :)