>>58
>gathering the motivation
If you don't want to write, you shouldn't write.

>>59

Hey, I know that feeling myself. Just because he isn't motivated doesn't mean he doesn't want to do it. For example, right now, I'm kind of thirsty, but I can't be arsed getting up and making a cup of tea.

>>60
What this guy said. Seriously. I can drop some good ideas out of thin air and spice 'em up with a decent prose, I just never feel like doing it (except when someone asks me to):P

Dude. Really? Your problem is lack of ideas? I don't want to be a dick, but its over. Ideas are the EASY part. Its the grind that's is hard. Without ideas you are destined to be a technical writer, describing mechanical parts for submarines or designer buckets for caterpillars. Nothing wrong with that though man. Nothing at all. You can make a really good living describing patents or writing court briefings...

I have the opposite problem. I have a million ideas, but ever since the health insurance ran out and my supply of ADD meds disappeared, I have not one ounce of grind left in me.

Perhaps we should work out a deal? Drugs for ideas. It sounds like a fair exchange.

>>83
I don't know if you really read what I wrote or if I just stated it in a confusing manner. Let me reiterate.
I write well. I have quite a few original and interesting ideas and I can make more at any time.
I have no motivation.


About your drug problem: drink tea or some such other herbal hippie shit. I hear those things work well.

>>93
>other herbal hippie shit

That's the ticket!

>>59

Not true at all, a lot of extremely talented writers have this issue. Dostoyevsky only wrote most of his masterpieces after he was starving, hungry and drowning in debt. Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear & Loathing because, instead of going to report on a motorcycle story as intended, he ended up spending all his money on drugs and just started ripping shit out of his diary and sending it to his publisher. I like Bukowski too, but there's not one perfect formula that leads to good writers.

>>83

I feel you man, I fucking miss Adderall. Try Adrafinil, it's not euphoric, but it's stimulating and unscheduled, so you can order it off the internet. Ephedrine's in the same vein, and it's a better stimulant, but it's also a precursor for meth and hard to get. You could try nootropics, but I find their efficacy questionable.

When I hit a wall, and can't do the prose part of writing, I just outline stuff, or add in little comments about what needs to be written. Like storyboards and stuff. "Such and such needs to happen here", or "Rework this to maintain continuity", or "find the capabilities of XYZ so that it's not a magic device". Sometimes I just work on something related, like mapping where in the story world the characters are so that I have a timeline for how long they'd take to get from A to B.

Then when I get the motivation to start reworking the prose, I'm still ahead of where I was. Even if I haven't done the heavy lifting, I at least know what needs to be done, and it doesn't take nearly as much work.

I generally deal with short fiction stories, though, so not all of that may apply.