Keeping Going by Allison Symes
Image Credit: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos This is probably an apt title for this post given January seems to be the longest month of the year! How do you motivate yourself to keep going with your writing? If you’re earning from your writing, there is an obvious motivation to keep going but most people, I find, have times where they’re tired and writing is harder to do. The darker times of year don’t help either. I know when I’m tired my creativity drops. No real surprises there but it’s taken me a while to figure that link out. What can I do? Be kind to myself and just write something as I know any writing makes me feel better. Doesn’t matter if it’s 50 or 500 words - I know I’ve got something down. Just knowing that gives me a much needed boost. When I’m not tired and am in the zone, I just keep going and going and going like the old Duracell bunny. (Younger readers - this was a famous advert from years ago which ran for ages, much as the bunny...