How To Stay Motivated As A Writer

how to stay motivated as a writer

Reread your old writing, especially those scenes you’re most proud of

Write something silly. It doesn’t need to be logical, consistent or included in your story. Write something dumb

Compare your old writing to your new writing. Seeing how much you’ve improved can be very motivating

Explore different storylines, those type of storylines that would never make it into your story, but you’d still like to play around with. Create AUs!

Choose one of your least favorite scenes and rewrite it

Act out your scenes

Read old comments from people praising your work

Create a playlist that reminds you of your wip

Team up with a friend, write AUs for each other's characters

Create playlists for your characters

Draw your ocs/make memes of your ocs

Draw/make memes of your friend's ocs

Don’t push yourself to get back into writing the thing that made you stop writing in the first place, try writing something else!

Write what you wanna write, no matter how cliché it might be. If you want to write it, write it

Take a break, focus on another hobby of yours. Consume other pieces of media, take a walk to clear your head

You don’t have to write in chronological order if it isn’t working for you! Sometimes a scene you aren’t interested in writing can become interesting after you’ve explored other scenes in the story

Read bad reviews of books or TV-shows. You’ll unlock appreciation and motivation for your own writing

Create a new storyline, or a new character! Anything that helps bring something fresh into your story. Could even be a completely new wip!

Not writing every day doesn’t make you a bad writer. Take a break if you feel like you need one

Remind yourself to have fun. Start writing and don’t focus all your attention on following “the rules.” You can get into the nitty-gritty when you’ve familiarized yourself with writing as an art. Or don’t. It’s fiction, you make your own rules

Go to sleep, or take a nap. Sleep deprivation and writing does not go hand in hand

Listen to music that reminds you of your characters/wip

Remember why you started. Know that you deserve to tell the story you want to tell regardless of the skill you possess

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if we’re mutuals, and I don’t care whether we’ve been mutuals for twelve (12) minutes or three (3) years, you can send me a message any time about any thing. family life is shit? bitch, tell me about it and even if I can’t help, I can listen. struggling with mental illness and feel like you can’t talk to anyone? talk to me. literally. you always can. saw a cute cat? SEND THAT BITCH MY WAY

If you want a poem.

Reblog this, and I’ll send you one.

To Lily, A Modern Beauty, By @ladyliliana. I Hope This Fits Her! Requests For OC Aesthetics Are Open.

To Lily, a modern Beauty, by @ladyliliana. I hope this fits her! Requests for OC aesthetics are open.


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Eleven traumatized magicians long to leave society, unknowingly start a squad war and end up trying to save said society.

Describe your WIP in one sentence

Short Lesbian and overly dramatic man-child peacocking over innocent bisexual red head

I am writing a highly self-indulgent podcast like that, myself! More info at six. 

podcasts really struck gold when they tapped into the niche but highly enjoyable genre that is "eccentric gay person with an unusual occupation where a ton of weird shit happens narrates their adventures and personal life" and i just cannot get enough

what is one thing you absolutely need to write?

For a deadline: I need to write a short story that is respectable and good enough to send to a potential publisher.

For myself: I need to write a story about leaving and homecoming, about friends and family and love and how to find out if you have told the truth when you are not sure anymore. I need to write about the beautiful pointless passion of people. And I need to write about the gravestone with the poem etched into it, because I cannot stop thinking about it.


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For Priscilla, The Girl Who Literally Died, By @theimpossiblescheme. I Hope You Like It! Requests For

For Priscilla, the girl who literally died, by @theimpossiblescheme. I hope you like it! Requests for OC aesthetics are open.


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This is fun, because I always write stories with a lot of POV's. So:

Elementary: Tungsten, Silver, Phosphore, Tin and Zinc.

Waterways: Alba, Paco, Mikel, Josephe, Kalliope and Imanol.

hey, guys! do me a favor! reblog this post and tell me the name of the main character for the wip you’re currently working on!


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You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).
You Don't Want To See Me Suffer (it's Not Entertaining).

You don't want to see me suffer (it's not entertaining).

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