... finding the motivation is tough.
I, personally, think that finding motivation during any point of the writing process is hard. Like, can't we just be death eaters instead??
... finding the motivation is tough.
Motivation comes in waves for me. I go weeks and weeks of intense productivity, writing every free moment throughout the day (not counting internet dawdling) and feeling guilty and anxious whenever I try to do anything else. Then eventually I burn out and crash into some form of escapism that eats up my time. During burnout periods I’ll have to force myself to sit at the desk staring at the blank page, and hitting my minimum word count each day can feel like pulling teeth. The moment I hit my minimum I’ll run back to whatever my current preferred escape from the grind has become.
Then eventually something sparks my creativity again, and bam, I’m back at the crest of the wave ready to ride it as far as it will take me. So the cycle continues.
Queries--so much anxiety
Synopses--tell the story? If I tried to tell my stories around a campfire I'd be skewered and roasted
Middles--I suck, this sucks, why am I doing this, why do I ever do this
The 10,000 words before the last 3,000--this. will. never. end.
Basically, I like the feelings in the beginning. The new idea, the rush of oh! what if? and then she can...wouldn't that be fun... Yup, I love writing those first 20,000 words, especially the opening scene.
I've also never queried, so I may have no idea what I really hate about writing.
My least favourite thing about writing is doing the first spellcheck. My spelling isn't awful, just highly individual at points. It is a little embarrassing when the spellcheck can't find the correct way to spell a word I've written and that happens more than I'd really like to admit. I used to spellcheck as I went but found I was stopping all the time because of that horrible red underline. Although computer spellcheck has helped as before I had a computer I threw my dictionary out of frustration more than once.
Querying and blurbs. My knee-jerk response is "Oh, just read the damn book!" Which falls solidly into the realm of Not Helpful.
For me, it's the time it takes to write. I don't necessary hate the writing process (all the time, anyways) but I HATE how long it takes me to finish something. I am a slow writer. I am also a very distracted writer. And I am VERY impatient. It takes me 8-12 months to finish a rough draft normally, and nearly every day when I open my novel document I spend a good 5 minutes internally whining about how I'm never going to finish this thing.
I'd love to be able to double or triple the amount of quality words I can do in a day, but I seriously suck at focusing. It's probably the biggest thing I need to work on right now.