Motivation to Write a Book: 7 Great Ideas

Need a little motivation to start writing your story or to write that next scene? Here are seven great ideas to get you going (Click the linked title for the full article):

• Like the rising sun, my writing casts an ever-widening light upon the world 
As a unique human being, you can offer the world a perspective that was never considered before, can synthesize disparate ideas that offer new insights and solutions, can inspire people to work for great causes and to shift their views away from those that are dark and unjust.

• Were you taught a writing process? 
There is a system of five basic steps – brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, formatting – that all writers essentially follow every time they work on a story or a nonfiction book. How much time writers spend on each step and how frequently they switch back and forth between them is entirely unique to each individual, however. It even can change for an author with each story written.

• Alter the world 
Rather than consume something, when writing we make something. The very act of writing then is a choice in how we’ll live and treat our planet. In what other ways does your simple decision to write alter the world around you?

• Man with a gun 
If suffering from writer’s block, add something that demands explanation, a technique borrowed from author Raymond Chandler.

• Immerse yourself in writing for 10,000 hours 
Most of us will agree that to get better at something, practice is necessary. To become a world-class master at something, however, requires an enormous amount of practice; indeed, journalist Malcom Gladwell in his book “Outliers” proposed the 10,000-hour rule.

• Read their inspirations 
If you really want to learn the craft of writing from your favorite authors, read their inspirations. You typically can find them through his/her personal website or a Wikipedia article.

• What misfortunes most bother you? 
What sufferings or misfortunes of others most concern you? Spend a few minutes listing them, then focus on one, telling how you first came to learn of it and what worries you the most about it.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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