I’m making steady progress but getting a little concerned about focus levels. I’ve moved country and I’m running low on the adhd meds I brought in the first place. Hopefully I can refill soon, cause it’s so much harder to knuckle down when I don’t have the meds.
My overall project is at over 45k words though! I’m kinda stoked about that!
Hopefully the second chapter isn’t paced too poorly.
Ah the joys of writing just scrapped approx 2500 words, luckily I know what I’m replacing that scene with so shouldn’t put me back too far and the scene is saved elsewhere in case I find another use for it.
This month I’ve started a WIP. Currently it’s to chapter 2. You can read more info about it here, it’s honestly pretty quiet there. Please if you want to comment honestly at this point I need some social points. 
Accomplished.
I thought I was less than 50k words away from ending my story. I was wrong. So I have now succeeded in my goal, but failed in my expectations.
I ended up going with the implementation instead, and then shot myself in the foot by wanting to impliment a foot note option (in case players don’t wanna see jpgs…) and then I found out that I may be accidentally triggering the footnote, despite the fact that I wanted to make it to where the footnotes would only trigger once a play through… TAT I’m losing my damn mind over here.
I wish. I’m not making portraits for characters in this case. It’s for translations of words. I’m aiming for the same feel I get when I’m reading translated CNovels, and have to check the footnotes for the translator comments on culture and language, which do wonders for helping me to understand what’s happening in the story.
GOOD JOB. Just getting started alone is a tough trek, and you’ve made the first steps! I’m SO proud of you!
Isn’t that just the way… Sorry for the dissapointment, but congratulations!
Congratulations to everybody who has achieved their goals! There’s still slightly over a month before we turn the calendar over to 2024, so press on and keep going! All the best!
This month has been more on other real-world stuff, so that explains why I’m not as frequently posting here.
Annnd after I recovered a bit, the household wintry illness is back with a vengeance. I am feeling sorry for myself and for my family, who are also struck down. Not covid, thankfully, but exhausting nonetheless. Blech. I was really hoping to get a good start on my next chapter today.
Feel better!
I feel you. I’ve been sick for a few weeks, feeling like I’d prefer turning into a bear and sleeping until spring (especially since I’m half doing that already, sleeping twice the normal amount).
This sort of a silly thing to bring up. But when I take Mucinex (Guafiasin), I write really cool stuff. Its a weird drug. You can calm horses with it. Sort of makes me feel high or something. So if you are still congested from your illnesses, give it a try. I do not suggest heavy coding---- just creative writing. And no DM, that drug is for sleeping soundly. I am not a doctor---- But I did get a goodnight’s rest at a Holiday Inn. Hope you all feel better!
Heh, I have been taking it because it’s a decongestant, but it doesn’t have any more interesting effects for me. Hoping to get a better night’s sleep tonight, as today has been a bit of a washout in terms of doing anything particularly useful or fun.
I’m having a bit of a ‘why even bother?’ mood.
It was caused by different creative pursuits, but I can feel my writing motivation getting affected by it too.
Why bother spending so much energy and effort creating anything, when it’s never going to be good enough, and nobody will care about it anyway?
Usually, I am pretty good at the whole ‘finding my motivation in my own enjoyment instead of needing the validation of others’ thing, but it does hit sometimes… 
I go through those at least twice per month, I know how exhausting they are.
Try talking with someone you enjoy and/or build more mental resilience (I’m not saying it will be easy).
I’m having one of those (again), but that’s regarding job-hunting, not writing. Writing relaxes me, so the “why bother” is not really a question in there.
That’s a problem I am also in danger of falling into.
I am afraid that I may be just bandwagoning on this phenomenon and can’t sustain this interest too. Any ideas how to solve this issue?
Edit:
I have yet to reach that level, since I write in a way that hardly anybody can “get” what I want to put across. This is my biggest problem for years.
For me spite is a good motivation. I put on my Slim Shady cap, start humming Under the Influence and go towards my keyboard. Does it really suck? Go ahead, prove it, random person, even if that person is myself! Oh, you can’t? Go fuck yourself, then!
It’s kind of funny how Eminem’s rap in his Shady persona helped me to grow more confident in myself and persist out of sheer spite. Anger was always a good motivator for me, so when I’m having doubts I start taking shit about doubting myself and, surprisingly enough, it actually works.
Motivation is a fickle beast.
When a person I thought would dislike or even hate my writing tells me that they really enjoyed it and felt it ended too fast, I get motivated to keep working on that project.
I think one of the hardest facts I’ve had to accept is learning that only 10%-15% of those that buy games actually complete them (according to a publisher’s statistics a few years back).
I have worked to turn this around to think of it as I am writing for those that actually do complete my stories and then to make this a goal: to write elegantly enough that more than 15% of those purchasing a game of mine completes it.
Finding even one reader who “gets” my writing is astonishing to me and is very motivational!
I feel that sometimes and I think we all do, but to remove that feeling I think of all the good things my
WIP has done to others. Has it made them feel good? Has it made them feel happy?
So I decided to find my motivation to make my WIP by thinking of everything I might have given to someone yesterday or maybe today. Maybe a burst of happiness or a smile on their face etc. 
Exactly!!!
That’s another day of not much inspiration. I’m starting to think I should just focus on Daemonglass for now as that’s a lot more planned out.
Feel really frustrated right now.
I don’t have multiple WIPs cause I’m scared of the stress. But admire those who balance more than one at the same time. I can see why you’re frustrated but honestly when I can’t think of anything. I just curl up and watch something on Netflix. 
And then, the thing I watch on Netflix randomly gives me context to add to my WIP. But I know, not the same thing works for everyone. So find what’s your favorite thing to do other than writing then maybe out of the blue it gives you inspiration. 