2026 Motivation Thread

[EricJ]

@EricJ, I hear you! This is how I work too. Often one or two main projects on the go at once during their initial planning, outlining and rough draft/pre-writing phases, then just one takes over. However, I allow myself to consider new ideas, develop them while they're fresh and growing. That sometimes lasts an hour, sometimes a few days (during which I work on multiple projects). Yes, I could be more disciplined and dedicated to a single project at one time. I would get that project finished more quickly. But I enjoy working as I do, and I do get my projects done. And, as EricJ says, it keeps me moving forward, keeps the creative gears turning when I'm stuck on one story or another.

Yeah true, it's just how I do, I have a few books actually in the works, but right now I'm just prioritizing serial fiction unless sales increase, then I can work on them sometime, just not in the headspace right now for much honestly, got other things going on.

 

[kmtolan]

Writing is picking up with the re-orientation of the story getting a new title 'Spirit Guide'. On version four of first draft with the plot line finally settling. Welding in some of what I wrote before. It's like landing a really stubborn fish, I swear. Being weened off meds (yay!), so goodbye brain fog. I've pivoted from a android-centered idea (which has been mostly cast aside now) after all the writer's block issues finally told me even I wasn't interested in that well-traveled idea. But Mayan mythos coming to life? A girl caught between death gods and high-tech? Oh hell yeah! If I can get this obstinate WIP to a second draft, I can get it to a final.

 

[RedMage]

Writing is picking up with the re-orientation of the story getting a new title 'Spirit Guide'. On version four of first draft with the plot line finally settling. Welding in some of what I wrote before. It's like landing a really stubborn fish, I swear. Being weened off meds (yay!), so goodbye brain fog. I've pivoted from a android-centered idea (which has been mostly cast aside now) after all the writer's block issues finally told me even I wasn't interested in that well-traveled idea. But Mayan mythos coming to life? A girl caught between death gods and high-tech? Oh hell yeah! If I can get this obstinate WIP to a second draft, I can get it to a final.

Glad to hear things are settling, Kerry! Whomever says writing fiction is easy has never done it themselves.

And off the meds? Excellent! Things can only improve from here!