Being Busy; Sometimes it Helps!
- Blake Rice
- Jan 14, 2015
- 2 min read
So, maybe lately you've just not been feeling in the "writing" mood. You've tried to find inspiration, or ideas, or some magic pills, but for whatever reason, you simply can't get it out onto the paper--or rather, you don't feel like it.
I have written stuff about this in previous posts because I'm there, feeling that way, a lot of the time. There are a few things that have helped me in the past, from doing cardio to changing the music I'm listening to, even waking up at six a.m. and forcing myself to write... but what do you do when all of that just doesn't work?
As many of you know, I quit my job to become a full-time writer and student. I was able to do so because of the resources available to me, and recommend it to all of you who are self-motivators, as long as you can afford to make such a drastic change. It has been a bumpy road since quitting, due to illness, the holidays, and just plain boredom--but I have found that some days, even the best, most calm of days, have been the absolute worst in the sense that I had no inner motivation to write. Strange, isn't it?
This, oddly enough, is a fact of life for many creative writers. Sometimes, you need to be busy, breaking down emotionally, lacking sleep, and on the verge of insanity for the words to come out as beautifully is if you were just sitting there writing without a care in the world. I don't know why, but yes, this is how it is sometimes.
So, I still refuse to work, but I have found a spark of outer-motivation that is igniting my inner-motivation; other people. That's right, other people. They help, believe it or not, and just surrounding yourself with a few creative minds once a week can seriously help your personal motivation to write... Within just days of coming back into contact with two of my writer friends from "back in the day," I felt my inner-motivation increase by 1,000 percent!
Even after this, you may not feel as motivated as you'd like, but that is OK! Try making yourself less available to be writing. Give your life just a little dose of "hectic," and see where it takes you. Take on a babysitting job for the weekend, make and follow through with plans to clean out the inside of your car, buy a new tube of toothpaste, and register to vote. Then, make plans to be around those creative minds once a week, and I can almost garuntee that you'll feel that spark once more!
I hope to have been of help to you all; never stop learning, never stop writing. That is your lifeline.
Cheers!
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