You start with a burst of writing motivation. You are super energized!
“By gosh, this memoir is going to get written and it’s going to be good!” you tell yourself. And the writing flows for the first while. Your writing motivation remains high. You write regularly and you think about how to make your memoir better and better. At last, you feel like you are a “real writer!” Then…
A day—or two or three—goes by without any writing. Then that “not writing” repeats itself the next week.
“But that’s ok,” you tell yourself . “I’m just taking a few days off.” But…
The few days off eventually become many days off and the memoir begins to seem a bit less interesting.
You realize you aren’t making much progress. Your writing motivation is on the wane. You ask yourself…
“Is this really worth my time to write?”
You have entered a dangerous path! It leads to quitting.
Don’t.
Below are articles whose goal is to help you to sustain your writing motivation for the long run of creating a memoir.
No one said it was going to be easy—just that you can do it. The fact is…
Many people just like you have written interesting and meaningful memoirs and so can you.
Are you wanting to finish your memoir? How do you pick it up and finish a memoir that you started some time ago?
There are writers who stop writing and then do not know how to re-connect to the writing life. Writers who have stopped writing may want to write again, to pick up their memoir, but what has happened is that the train of thought, the feeling, and the sensibility that went into the creation of those previously-written stories have now been lost. They are no longer in that realm where writing a memoir is something they can do easily.
The source of their inspiration has dried up.
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