Hi i love the SOS series and I'm really happy to have found your blog. I'm interested in becoming a writer and my question is, how do you keep going with writing? There are somedays I feel like I'm doing great with it, it's so interesting and I like doing

This is going to sound cheeky, but it’s sincere: Write anyway.

The motivation and inspiration for writing ebbs and flows, and like any other part of the creative process, that rhythm can seem to have no predictable pattern. One day, you’re brimming with ideas and bang out two thousand words in a couple of hours; the next day, it’s like drawing blood from a stone to squeeze out two hundred.

When you’ve been going strong for a while and you’re starting to feel burned out, it’s actually a good idea to take a break, maybe for a few days. But when you get into a true, long-term motivation drought, you have to just grit your teeth and write through it, no matter how boring and arduous it feels.

There’s a tip that personal trainers give their clients: If you really don’t want to work out, commit to working out for just five minutes. If you still want to stop after five minutes, you can do so guilt-free. 

Oftentimes, it’s the motivation to start an activity that people are actually struggling with. Once they get into the activity - whether it’s exercising or writing or whatever - it’s not unusual for them to genuinely want to continue.

You can bring this tip into your writing by setting yourself some kind of small daily minimum that you have to meet. Maybe it’s five to ten minutes of writing. Or if you’re like me, and there’s no way you can focus on only one thing at a time, a word count goal will probably work better - even something as low as 200. 

You commit to your minimum, and if you get there and you still feel bleh about it, you stop and try again tomorrow. But you’ll often find that, by the time you reach your minimum threshold, you want to keep going! The most important thing is that you don’t just stop writing altogether.

Throughout a motivation drought, remember that the wheel always comes back around. You’ll feel that awesome creative spark again - but if you’re serious about writing, you can’t sit around and wait for it. Write through the drought, and you’ll reach the other side much faster.

I hope this is helpful, and thank you so much for your kind words!