>8:30 pm >weekday >borrowed mum's car at 4:30, spent the entire time driving around, drinking coffee, eating junk food, feeling bad about life, browsing Veeky Forums, optimistic about working hard tomorrow >will go to gym and then home and then lie on bed browsing Veeky Forums instead of reading
Well, that's been typical for the past year.
Instead of dropping one of the usual copy pastas, I'll just ask my questions straight up:
How do you get the motivation to do stuff and deal with stuff and risk ridicule and wasting time and energy? Hard mode: Don't just scream, "DUDE THE SUBLIME LMAO"
Thomas Martinez
Do you have any friends or anyone you interact with? I don't.
David Robinson
Veeky Forums counts, right? I never use a trip and have still been recognised because of my repetitive posting.
Leo Perez
>Veeky Forums counts, right? I hope so user. I hope so.
Ayden Anderson
Real answer is step up. You don't live in a vacuum, whatever you are thinking isn't that great once you get it down on paper. I made excuses and there's no end to those. You have no time to debate, you either do it now and work hard today or you'll never work hard. If I gave you two thousand years to sit and ponder the action you would take in the next second, no matter what you did it would be either to write the damn thing or spend the day worrying. You're a worry addict. Most people are, they don't understand the basic things are the most important, and if you want to write you should probably start by writing since it's really cheap to do these days.
Difficulty is in promotion. There is no 'motivation', if you're waiting for a certain feeling in your body to come and give you the go-ahead then you're going to be waiting a long time.
Hudson Long
How can you eat junk food and then go to the gym?
Aiden Perry
very carefully
Noah Sullivan
I don't understand. You shouldn't eat that shit at all.
Christopher Mitchell
i work as a screenwriter, so while im not a lit author, i still write. i don't make nearly enough from screenwriting (doing small projects and working my way up to something bigger in a few years) so I make my living otherwise.
i work part-time at a bar and on top of that i have a small inheritance that i use to pay part of my rent.
the thing that saved me is that as a screenwriter, i write for a director. the guy i write for is 9 years older than me, and is no longer "wasting time waiting" for his career. he (and the producers) set deadlines and push for projects to be finished.
i guess i'm like most people: i like starting projects but have a hard time following up. the flipside is that my boss (and the producers we write for) aren't like that at all: they expect to see projects through to fruition.
if it weren't for these two parties to keep me in check, i'd never finish anything. instead, i've written a handful of short films, a webseries and two features.
td;dnr: get people to keep you in check if you're a total slob.
