Don’t wait for inspiration – just write!
When I was young and impressionable, I used to make the mistake of thinking that I had to feel "inspired" in order to write. I have learned though, that this is far from the truth. I still fall into that trap every once in a while and I have to force myself to sit down and pound out a few pages of a short story.
So what’s the difference in your writing when you are feeling "inspired" and when you are not: nothing!
I have a book called The Novel Writer’s Toolkit (aff link), by Bob Mayer, and it addresses this very issue. In a section where Mayer discusses not being able to write because of writer’s block, feeling uninspired, etc, he offers this:
Just write anyway. It might be awful, but at least you’re left with something other than a blank page. You’ll be surprised how little difference there is between what you write when you feel motivated and what you write when you’re discouraged. They both come from the same brain" (Mayer 20).
1 comment - Latest by: Gina Duarte : Hi, Mark Thanks for this post. I consider myself a terrible writer; self-conscious and overly sober; uncreative and simplistic; not to ... More

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