How do you keep motivated to write?

[Menoetes]

A question to all regular writers....

How do you keep motivated, and find the time to write regularly?

I find it hard to find the time between my girlfriend, job and family to write. I also find my best writing comes when I have a lot of pent up sexual energy (though it may need a re-editing later). My girlfriend knows I write and neither forbids or condones it, but I just have trouble sometimes keeping my writing up, so my stories can go as long as months without me contributing... how do you guys do it?

I love writing erotica but my writiing comes in waves, i wish I could be more consistant.

 

[tan82]

I find it difficult to find the motivation as well. I have so many ideas and plans for threads I want to write, but one of my problems is that I tend to write long threads and take too much time to write them. So often I will write a thrrad or two, and then don't feel like writing any more at the time. It's also a problem when I have many other things to take care of, and I don't want it to feel like a chore to write threads, so I usually only do it when I have the time to it and I really want to write. Which unfortunately isn't all that often at the moment.

 

[Zingiber]

Waves

The motivation comes and goes. I check in frequently to see if I feel inspired. Often this is if I see another writer has contributed to a story I like or to one of my threads. I'm a little disappointed that I haven't felt moved to expand more on some of what I think are good set-up threads.

I started out on Chyoo when I had more time and fewer competing interests and commitments. So it feels OK that I'm doing less.

-Z.

 

[wicker]

My biggest motivation is having people add on to my threads. If that doesn't happen, I tend to lose motivation.

 

[TJChurch]

I liked to write non-erotica stories before I ever found this place.

More often then not, I feel it for a few hours or even a day, but then not for a long time. That's the beauty of CHYOO over my offline stories; Others can add to my stuff when I can't.

 

[wicker]

My last 11 or so threads have no children! Of course three or four of those haven't been approved yet, but it hurts the motivation. :-(

 

[GoodBoy741]

You can always wright children to your own threads. In fact, some of your threads read like they were prompting a specific follow up. That kinda makes it seem to other writers like you had something in mind that you might wright yourself.

 

[Dr. Tentakelliebe]

I have to agree seeing follow ups are what really get me intrested, but me I'm on the "my regular gets in the way trip" so who am I to talk. Usually it is something I see or expeirence that reminds me to get back and try and write somthing, more often than not there is something in real life that inspires a new thread.

 

[horny-oz]

Quite often I intend to come to CHYOO and create, but my downfall is that I always go looking and browsing first, then end up sidetracked.

If you know what I mean.

 

[wicker]

You can always wright children to your own threads. In fact, some of your threads read like they were prompting a specific follow up. That kinda makes it seem to other writers like you had something in mind that you might wright yourself.

I've done that, but I prefer working with others. It's nice to know other people like your work and want to work with you.

 

[Dr. Tentakelliebe]

Quite often I intend to come to CHYOO and create, but my downfall is that I always go looking and browsing first, then end up sidetracked.

If you know what I mean.

try duct tape

 

[Menoetes]

I guess most of us are in the same boat, my newest story 'A dramatic change" is a spinoff of an original written by another writer and he keeps bugging me to add more to my version, I keep telling him... if your so eager for a particular outcome try writing it yourself!

I recently had a burst of motivation but just aren't feeling it right now, and if I write in this state - I get too wordy, over explanative and not enough xex finds it's way into the story, which (lets face it) hurts readership - a majority of our readers on chyoo don't wanna read several long chapters of explaination just to reach two paragraphs of sex that's written half-heartedly.

 

[tan82]

I have so many ideas and have had for some time. I just can't find the motivation to actually do the writing. I think I need someone to do all the hard work for me.

 

[RicoLouis]

My problem isnt motivation I always have fresh idea's. My problem is how to end each thread with a question. I always know where to start and what I want to happen but I always have trouble with an ending. I also get side tracked at times with other ideas that don't fit the story I am writing.