Motivation Station

[Tashni]

I'll be honest. I'm having a hard time getting motivated to get writing today. (And it's only the 2nd day!) I've been through some crud today, so I need some motivation.

And I figure I can't be the ONLY person who will need some motivation this month, so this here is the Motivation Station! Kind of like a gasoline station, only here you get pumped up with writerly energy!

Post your inspirational comments, pumping up speeches, and other motivating bits, pics, and movies here!

"All it takes to be a successful writer is the ability to handle rejection." - Ernest Hemmingway

"The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write." - Anonymous

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I'm almost caught up to today's word goal despite being behind yesterday. YAY!

Um...honestly, I really like the pep talks that are sent out, especially when they're honest. ^^ Those are my motivation.

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That, and competition. I can't let everyone here beat me! (I need competition to motivate myself, I swear...)

Just searching for "writing quotes", I found this one that I like. ^^

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

woot. ^^ I'll go fish my thread out now.

Good luck and happy writing to everyone! ^^

EDIT: And more:

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov

Ah, the principle of 'Show, don't tell'. Poetry in motion. ^^

Easy reading is darn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

...True. >.<

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov

Because it makes me laugh. XD

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

For all you evil NTWFers out there, you know who you are. ^^

[Tam]

I just got a NaNo newsletter emailed to me from the Alberta: Elsewhere region, and I really liked two parts in particular.

I thought this might be helpful for those of you who aren't as happy with how your story is going, or how high your word count is, as you would like to be. For those of you who are starting (or restarting) late.

That’s all that NaNoWriMo is: a chance to go out on a merry chase with your dream, to let it stretch its muscles. There’s no reason to give up on that, just because you missed a day or two, is there? So sit down. Open up a word processor, and start typing about anything – absolutely anything, just to get a little bit of text on that big blank page. Pretty soon, an idea will come to you that sounds more interesting than what you’re currently writing. Go ahead and write that instead. There it is – the seed of your novel.

Wasn’t that great? And it wasn’t even November 1st. Why, just think what you’ll get done tomorrow... and with that, welcome back to NaNoWriMo! I’m just as proud of any writer who starts late as I am of any writer that finishes early – it’s just a different type of challenge, and one which I know you can meet.

And this line is just generally a way of making us sound really cool, which I know motivates you guys just as much as it does me.

Keep writing until the snow covers your plot holes! Keep writing until the wind blows away your doubts! Keep writing until you find the moon looking over your shoulder, waiting to see what happens next!

[Chao]

I'm still waiting for today's Nano-Letter... But Tamia, the line about the moon looking over your shoulder is great! I just had to copy the whole line (and exchange the snow covering the plot holes to rain filling them, as we never get any snow worth speaking of before new year), so now whenever I look up from my laptop I look straight at it

The one thing that keeps me motivated is: No matter how bad the day, no matter how annoying your boss/teacher/parents/neighbours, opening my NaNo-file is like opening the door to a different world, waiting for me to discover it along the path of writing the story.
Perfect escape from RL.

[Killix]

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Keep writing until the snow covers your plot holes! Keep writing until the wind blows away your doubts! Keep writing until you find the moon looking over your shoulder, waiting to see what happens next!

That's...awesome. My wallpaper is full of NaNo-related junk, and I've got to put this quote on!

[Butterfly]

Found a site with a bunch of awesome quotes. Here's most of what I found most relevant to us crazies over here:

Are we, who want to create, in some way specially talented people? Or has everybody else simply given up, either by preassures of modesty or laziness, and closed their ears from their inner need to create, until that need has died, forgotten and abandoned? When you look at children, you start to think the latter. I still haven't met a child who doesn't love - or who at least hasn't loved - drawing, writing or some other creative activity.
Natalia Laurila

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
Les Brown

Don't let a single day go by without writing. Even if it's garbage, if garbage is all you can write, write it. Garbage eventually becomes compost with a little treatment.
Anonymous

If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Louis L’Amour

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

[Jayeee]

Yay, well done everybody so far!
Remember: It's not necessarily the word count at the end that matters most, it's the journey that you, your characters, and the worlds you've created take that really counts.

So keep on writing, and posting those exerpts. I've been enjoying reading all your respective threads!