WRITING
Rekindle Your Writing Motivation
You know how to write, but do you know how to motivate yourself?
Let me just start with ‘The’ most discordant sentence here:
Writing is tough!
The route of becoming a professional/nonrecreational writer is prolonged and quite cumbersome, which no one ever acknowledges. A writing career has its own highs and lows. “Highs” are when you spit ideas and words out of your tongue with fluency at your fingertips and when you’re motivated and confident of imminent success. And there are times when writers hit ‘The Writers’ Block’. You are critically blocked, and you just get demoralized and demotivated to write. You feel uncertain about the forthcoming. You even doubt your own work, which you appreciated earlier in time. The stream of ideas and words just gets desiccated. These are the moments that deters you to be creative.
The “highs” can last weeks, months, or, lamentably, minutes. In order to nurture your career, it is pivotal to retain yourself motivated. Sometimes, the finest inspiration comes after writing the first line. Inspiration is very mostly the outcome of our own habit, of getting into a flow or rhythm of work, and of fixing yourself goals of how much and about what you wish to write each day. Oddly enough, the determination that you will finish a particular piece of work is a great source of inspiration.
Set pragmatic goals
Set yourself a pragmatic goal every time you decide to write. Assigning unrealistic goals to yourself may lead you to procrastination, and you don't wanna do that. My goal is to write one article per day, which is totally possible for me. I would be dumb if I told myself to write two articles every-damn-day. I will just end up not accomplishing my goal which will just stimulate guilt in me. And that guilt will haunt and corrupt my emotional being. And that will ultimately demotivate me to write.
Write daily
Just check out your ideals’ profile(Zulie Rane), and you will find one thing in common, and that is they post everyday. One of the schemes that professional writers use is they write daily. Writing every day will make you punctual and your mind will always wander in the “clouds of words”. Even when you don’t feel like writing, just try to put any effort into typing a single word. It will trigger and awake the writer inside of you. Ascertain how much of writing makes you feel comfortable every day. Accomplish that, then stretch it and attempt to double your yield. Just try to develop a writing habit. If you set a time to write in the morning, sit down and write at the same time each morning.
The perfect first sentence is a myth
Don’t wait till you have the flawless first sentence. You always look for the “mildly clickbaity” sentence to put in the prologue which will captivate the reader, don't you? But in reality, the perfect first sentences no longer fit with the article once it’s written out. Instead, try to think of the first sentence as an entrance which you must surpass to get into the ‘mainframe’ of your article. The entrance is much less significant than what’s in the mainframe.
Pour your heart out
Write an ugly draft first. Just write whatever is coming up to your mind without worrying about grammar, punctuation,k, and vocabulary. Remember that you are not attempting to write the immaculate and impeccable version of your article this time. You will have to edit, polish, and augment eventually to make your article look like a professional one. By doing this, you will let your mind do the talking. And you know, what they say — “the stuff that comes out of your heart is pure gold”. However, every writer proofreads his/her article and makes requisite modifications and adjustments, but try to get to the end of the draft before you move on to do any of this.
“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” — Steve Jobs
I have been through this phase of writing. Man! it was tough for me to get out of this realm of uncertainty. The aforementioned “tactics” were solely based on my experience. There are way too many articles that have written about “how to stay motivated” and I have read most of them(which are available on Medium). I tried to cancel out the ones which were common in many other articles. I hope this article helps you to stay motivated.
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