So what tools do you guys use to get yourself to write? Or, more specifically, to stop dilly dallying and move closer to publication?
Is it the money? The fame? The fear of ridicule from your peers who know that you've been working on that "silly" novel for months on end?
For me, I have a novel written, two half-written, three other novels to start, and one that I just started today. I need help. So I've decided that when I sell my first novel., I'm going to buy myself a puppy.
It is the ULTIMATE PLAN!!!
What about you?
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*it may be worth it to mention that I will probably "adopt," not "buy" a puppy. Either way, obtaining an animal generally requires a monetary exchange of some sort, which is why I used the word "buy." This also leaves my options open, just in case there is the slight chance of getting a rare Finnish Lapphund pup, of which there are only about a hundred in the united states. ahem.
I just want to hold a book in my hands that has my name as author on it.
It's that simple, really.
If we're talking about shooting for the moon, however, I'd just love to make a living *breathing* creativity...instead of breathing nauseating perfume at my office day-job.
One can always dream....
My ultimate goal is to be famous under three different names and fool the world. I strive toward that. Not that is motivates me, just that it's the ultimate plan. I need help with motivation too.
Whoa! STUFF HAS BEEN HAPPENIN' HERE!
Right now, I have a few sources of motivation. There's a letter from Martha Mihalick on my tack board right here in front of my face that says, "I'd be happy to see EARTHCROSSER again if you decide to revise." Oh, yeah, that's enough for me.
Before that, though, I relied a lot on friends and family who had read my work and said they liked it.
I've been wanting to be a writer so long that's just how I think now. Everything looks like a story to me. The power company sent me a flyer in the mail yesterday about an offer for free programmable thermostats and I'm cooking up a new near-future dystopian science fiction novel in which all energy use is regulated by the Central Power Company.
Most of all, I love, love, love to read, and I want to create books that make other people feel like I feel when I read my favorite books. When I read a good book or see a good movie or hear a good story I get this feeling, this overpowering longing, this ache, this burning, to DO THAT!!!
I use writer's conferences. For instance, I used the UVU Forum on Children's Literature pressure me to have the rewrite done on a picture book I wrote. Knowing it would be up for a paid review sorta lit a fire under my posterior.
Next up? WIFYR. I don't know yet what I will share there (I have two books that could be candidates), but I know that once a current web project is done, that chosen book will be the only thing I will work on until June.
I forgot to mention the characters! Sometimes the characters won't leave me alone. They follow me around, jabbering on in my head, until I write their story.
Other times, I absolutely fall in love with my characters and then writing is a way to spend time with them. That hasn't happened in a while. Maybe I'm better adjusted?
Writers are people who never stopped playing with their imaginary friends.
Doug, I wish I was going to WIFYR this year! Have a WONDERFUL time. The faculty line up looks great.
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