Fiction

 Hello readers,

I guess I am kind off continuing my previous post. Hopefully this one won't be as depressing. I wanted to talk about motivation and my writing. 

Recently it has been hard to find to motivation to write, draw and create. It's been like this for a few years. I will have days where I do a little bit but it is never like it was. I want to be able to get back into it but fail to come up with inspiration, and when I do I don't like what I have created and fall back into the same slump as before of not knowing what to do. 

I wanted to try my hand at a longer novel as all my writing previously has been poems and short stories. What I struggle is coming up with a plot that is unique. I begin planning only to realise it is so similar to something that I have already read, something someone else has written. Then sometimes I create a plot that I think is somewhat new and I struggle making the characters seem real and relatable. If I get further I struggle with how they talk, making them sound real and human. Making the flow make sense. 

I did try taking a game I like, using the subplot and the characters and building on it to make a novel as a practice exercise but... after a while it began to feel like cheating. Yes it was my own plot that I made based on hints and ideas put forward in the game but nothing else felt like my mine so I lost my motivation for that as well. 

Another thing is that I recently accidentally cleared all my notes from my phone, deleting all my ideas, stories and poems that I had stored there. Years worth of my creations and tales just gone. 

This isn't to say I have done nothing I am proud of. I did finally finish crocheting a pouch for my kindle. And I did help my carers make lots of decorations for their wedding as well as helping my boyfriends little sister with a school art project. 

If anyone has advice for this lack of motivation and any writing tips please comment. 

Good day/night everyone.