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I have read the Hobbit, but I have never seen the movies.

Hmm, that is a hard question to answer. And you may not like this, but motivation is different person to person. And situation to situation, too. For me, my motivation to write has come from a desire to not forget a story I’ve come up with, or because I loved the characters and I couldn’t stand to see them go into my pile of “unfinished projects”, or I did it out of love for the story. I think this is a big thing. You have to love your story, and enjoy it. If you’re having to make yourself, and force yourself to write it, then maybe it’s not worth it. That’s probably not the case here, but overall that’s something to remember. You have the freedom to put something aside for awhile and come back to it.

And also, writing is an act of worship. Even when we’re not writing something that’s directly speaking about God, as long as it’s clean stuff we’re writing, simply doing what He has given us the gift to do is an act of worship on our part. When we enjoy using our God-given talents, that is worship.

So all this is kind of rambling, but I hope I’m getting some sort of a point across. Ignore the deep INFJ stuff if you like. XD As for pure ideas, I sort of combine two things I read. Treating yourself, and marking on a calendar what days you’ve met your goal. A comedian did that; he had a goal to write a new joke every day, and every day he met that goal he would color in that space on the calendar. After awhile he didn’t want to break the chain. I have a specific writing calendar. When I meet so many days in a row, I give myself a treat. And for you, you could buy that treat when you’re at the grocery store, or whoever gets the groceries, and don’t allow yourself to eat it or have it until you meet your goal. A treat could be anything: food, a book, a new shirt you’ve been looking at, etc.

Most of my motivation comes out of a love for my story. I want to see it grow.

Another idea: don’t let yourself critique that word doc, answer a trivial email, even listen to youtube, until you have met a certain word goal. You can even tell yourself that you’re not allowed to do anything on the computer until you write. You can include this forum in that list, with the exception of word wars.

Those are just a few ideas, and I hope they were at least a little bit helpful. 🙂 Best of writing to you! May the words ever be in your favor!