Finding Writing Motivation as long as It’s Called Today

Is the day that you are reading this called today? Then you can find writing motivation today 🙂

I know it sounds funny to say it that way at first but it is important to stay focused on what is possible today and not on what was missed out on yesterday.

What we do today will ultimately affect tomorrow, but we have a little control over tomorrow. We have absolutely no control over yesterday, but today we have control and the potential to write some really amazing stuff!

So let’s try to find writing motivation today.

Write about the little things.

I was recently reading Storyworthy (an excellent book about storytelling. Good for writing stories and telling them out loud as well.) and one of the author’s tips was to keep a log of daily memories.

He has a skill at turning everyday life into award-winning stories. (I highly recommend reading it).

But I found it to be true. By applying the skills he talked about we can find deeper emotional meaning in our everyday experiences and turn them into story-worthy moments.

The big problem is. We aren’t actively looking for them. If we change the way we think about our lives and telling profound stories we will open our eyes to a treasure trove of stories that we may think aren’t worth telling, but this just isn’t true.

Part of the book teaches us how to make great stories out of our everyday lives.

Reward yourself.

I don’t know what your reward system is in your life, but my wife and I call it “Fun money.”

Fun money is essentially cash we can spend on whatever we want without checking with each other. The mentality is “blow your fun money on whatever you want!”

It’s fun. Every once in a while we might bet each other fun money on stuff, just for fun.

For instance, we might debate in a certain memory, “I thought we watched that movie while we were dating.”

“No honey, we definitely saw that when we were engaged.”

If we find out that we can 100% prove a fact we might wager a little fun money before revealing the actual facts 😏.

This is fun for us. But what is fun for you? What’s your “fun money?”

Treats?

Tech?

Experience?

Tools? (My brother reward himself with tools 😂)

You should set yourself a Writing goal and then set yourself a reasonable reward.

“If Write 1,000 words today I get to go out for ice cream.”

“If I Write 2,000 I get dinner and ice cream.”

“If I write 3,000 I get dinner, a movie, and ice cream!”

Those rewards might sound silly to you, but the more you are able to turn writing into fun the more excited you will get about doing it, and the more you do it the habit will form. If you form a habit, you will get better.

Find community.

I cannot even put into words how powerful and important this one tactic is. If you do nothing more from this post other than put yourself around other people that write daily, it’ll be very hard for you to not start writing daily as well.

Psychologically this works all the time. We become like people we put ourselves around. Almost without fail.

Find groups online and in real life. There are writing communities on Reddit, FB, Twitter, etc. (There used to be one on Parler that was good, but Parler didn’t make it r.i.p. Parler.)

It’s not as easy to find people in real life, but I recommend checking out your local library. Reading groups can sometimes have writers as well. And today I’ve heard that more and more groups are meeting via zoom and other video groups. If you can’t get out you can now find a video group to join.

What is your “why?“

Ask yourself, why do I write?

Some of us write for stress reduction. Writing can be a way to help us struggle through our emotions.

We write for fun. It’s fun to create something. It’s enjoyable to create a story and characters and dive into their lives and psyche and see what they do and where they go.

Some of us get paid to write or want to get paid to write. Today there are a myriad of paid writing jobs. Probably more than any other time in history. 

If you want to be a paid writer, today is the day. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It is easier to get paid as a writer today than at any other time in history. There are many writing job opportunities and the opportunity to learn to write well is massive compared to the past. (My recommendation is learning how to make money as a blogger. One of the best ways to make money blogging is through affiliate marketing.)

So why do you write? Why do you want to write?

Knowing your “why” can really help motivate you today to keep writing out to start. 

Some days your why will motivate you and some days it just won’t. That’s okay. We as humans change and grow all the time. This means we have to look at different angles of life and what we personally like about writing differently as we age and our lives change.

I recently read about an author that was a full-time bar owner before he started writing. When he realized it was his calling he sold his bar and now his daily life revolves around writing 6 hours a day. WAY different than being a bar owner.

Times change and motivations change and that can be a good thing. So if something stops working to motivate you to write, just try something else out something new altogether.

The most important thing is, don’t stop trying to find motivation. Just keep moving forward, and most importantly “write at least one word every day.”

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What to Look for in a Writing Group. Try these tips!

If you’ve been in a working writer’s group for a bit now, you know what to expect and what you want to see happen during that time session.

But if you haven’t been to a writing group yet and are looking for one you may want to consider these things.

Desire to publish.

Not everyone wants this, but I highly recommend it. To be a part of a writing group should be enjoyable but it also should be a little bit of a pressure cooker.

You want to be around people that are going to push you to be better and do better. A good pressure to have on yourself is to aspire to publish and one easy way to do that is to put yourself immediately around others where their desire, drive, and motivation is to publish (even better if they have already published before and are continuing to.

Don’t join a group that doesn’t have goals. Having goals is important for writers since it is tempting to put things off.

Actually, has stuff written down.

Too many writing groups aren’t actually a “writing” group.

Some like think tanks where everyone goes for weeks talking about world-building and plot ideas, but after weeks of talking nobody has written anything down.

Are we really a writing group? 😂

Another thing that can happen is they can turn into feel-good parties. You get to share your ideas for your story and everyone claps and praises your ideas. Again nobody shows any REAL writing work. They just talk about writing.

Openly and candidly share.

Look for a group that is open. 

Open to share their writing and open to your writing. Open to giving honest but helpful critiques.

Helpful critique is very specific and meant for real edit changes. Not helpful critics are general and usually don’t contribute anything of use or value to the editing of your work. 

“This is awful and no one would ever read it.” Is not helpful in any way, whereas, “this opening confused me. It’s long and I’m not sure if we are actually going anywhere.” Is helpful and gives you an inside look into what a reader might feel reading the first few pages of your book.

Open to differing opinions.

Personally, I find groups that push back against ideas for social reasons to be off-putting. (You’ll want to find a group that helps you thrive in the genre you’re in.)

If you want to write a romantic comedy, but the group thinks that’s cliché, then you’re probably going to want to find a different group. They won’t be very helpful to you.

If you’re in a group that’s hyper-political and you want to write an epic fantasy, they might push you in a weird direction.

Willing to do serious discussions.

You’re not there for the cookies (what I mean is, you are not ONLY there for the cookies 🙂 ). A group that will be most helpful to everyone involved is a group that is all willing to put in effort together and be thoughtful about EACH member’s writing.

You can do a certain amount of time on each one or you can say that the entire writing session is dedicated to one and each person gets into a rotation of sessions. It doesn’t really matter how you break it up as long as it’s fair.

There to help each other.

A big red flag would be several members that dominate the conversation and only ever want to talk about their work.

Join a group that wants to take time to help everyone’s work.

A willingness to receive helpful feedback and to also give helpful feedback is something you should look for in a healthy writing group.

It is 100% okay to leave a group.

If you find that you’re in a group but it doesn’t help each member out or the environment feels toxic, do not feel bad walking away from that group. It’s time being spent and you might benefit from spending it elsewhere.

So don’t feel too bad if you realize suddenly that your group is not helping each other and you see that you should step away.

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Why Do People Discourage Writers from Writing?

I don’t know if you’ve been in this situation before, but something tells me if you’re reading this you have.

You like to write. Maybe you like to write stories and novels. Maybe one day you dream of being published or getting paid to write.

If you fall into this category of liking to write you may have told someone you care about that you enjoy writing and might want to publish one day. They may have looked at you funny and said something like,

“So you’re gonna be the next J. K. Rowling huh? You becoming a successful writer is very unlikely.”

They immediately discouraged it. They told you in no uncertain terms that it is probably a bad idea to think that you could publish or get paid to write one day.

It’s hard to be vulnerable and share things we are passionate about with others, especially when they don’t resonate with us the way we desire them to.

Why do those we care to share our love of writing with say things like this and what should we do about it?

I’m sure they mean well.

If it’s your parents or someone in your family, I’m sure they mean well. They want more than anything to see us succeed and they want to shelter us from making what they think are “bad” decisions.

It’s understandable. But should we listen to it?

If you love to write, then just keep writing.

If you want to be a writer then write. Nobody is telling you to quit your day job and think that you’ll be a successful writer overnight.

Most successful writers worked their “derrieres” off writing for months and more likely years before anything caught traction.

Even in the freelance writing world, it can take months to land that first client and that might not even work out.

I remember my first two copywriting clients. One paid me $50 to write her About Me page (she didn’t seem super pleased) and the second hired me at $20/hour and politely told me “this isn’t gonna work out” after 3 hours.

Talk about overnight success.

But I didn’t quit and before long I learned a little more. Got a little better and started working with clients at $100 plus an hour.

So all that to say. Don’t quit your day job till you can afford to, but don’t quit writing either.

Most success stories have a common component: the person didn’t quit even when they failed. They just kept going and learning till they figured out what works and what doesn’t work.

Maybe it’ll just be a hobby for a bit and then become a side hustle, but to just obligatorily think you can’t make money writing or be a successful writer is quite the contrary to reality in our day and age.

Don’t tell just anyone.

As a creative and someone that loves creating and writing things whether it is art, or music, or writing I’ve learned two secrets.

One is that when I talk about what I’m thinking of creating I get enjoyment from what people say about the idea rather than the actual thing and then with that satisfaction I might not even desire to make it anymore. It’s a strange phenomenon but one that I’ve learned to watch out for. 

So these days I try to create in secret and then reveal when it is finished.

Two, when you tell people what you’re creating and why they are likely to discourage you and not help or support you. Sometimes it’s better to keep what you’re doing to yourself until it’s finished, well polished, and “impressive,” before letting anyone put an eye on it.

Just personally I wouldn’t recommend showing a painting you’re doing to anyone in the middle of it because it might look like some silly lines or colors.

They may say, “oh that’s nice… what is it supposed to be?” 👀

Rather than having this awkward interaction, just create the thing and when it looks amazing, then you can let people look at it.

If you create in secret, you are more likely to finish and less likely to get bad feedback along the way.

So look forward to showing someone your ACCOMPLISHMENTS someday and try not to daydream too much (I know it’s fun, but it’s not very rewarding).

Find a community that will push you forward.

Even though family members and close friends might think they are doing you a favor by discouraging you from writing, you don’t have to listen to their ideas. They are just opinions.

They may be right, they may be wrong, but at the end of the day no human, not even you can predict your future. 

If you really love to write it might be a good idea to find other people that love writing and talk with them about what you’re working on and see what they are writing too.

(At some point during your editing process, you’ll want to find writers that have a good critical voice, but that’s for later after you finish your story.)

And if you want to go into freelance writing, (which I highly recommend, alongside blogging for income) then you should find others and find out all you can from them.

Finding people that are already doing the thing you want to be good at is extremely beneficial compared to doing it on your own.

You can find others on Reddit, Twitter, FB, blogs, etc. Even if you can’t find people in person right now that enjoy writing as you do, you can find them online and start to join the conversation. Don’t make it all about your writing, be polite and be inquisitive about theirs as well.

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