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>>18732433
>how do you guys find motivation to get these things done?
Serial-writing, I set deadlines for myself. I've been going by to have a chapter released by Friday and if I miss that then I do crunch time and aim to release it by the weekend's end which can be difficult since those are the only days I work and I'd only have 4-ish hours to crunch before bedtime. I can guess what you can take away from this paragraph is to just bruteforce it—write whenever you absolutely can, put a word minimal for the day (100, 500, 1k) and if you exceed that then keep going until your attention span burns out and you want to do something else instead. You deserve it.

Of course, that's just how it goes in theory. In practice, I struggle quite a bit now that I've neared the end of this current book volume. I've been unable to release a new chapter the last two weeks because I'm here finally and I'm struggling with what I just said above. Tarkov had a new wipe earlier this month and my friends have been jumping into it recently. Since March or so, I've been casually toying with the idea of going on hiatus for a while since I've gotten all the "intense" plot points out of the way, and after releasing last chapter which was one of the scenes I've been eager to write out and looked forward to for the past year of writing—I'm simply burnt out. Now I'm just writing what is basically going to be the epilogue of sorts for this character arc and I'm all but dead set on going on hiatus for a month to enjoy myself after I finish this chapter and the next.

That kinda ended up long-winded personal experience. Just be persistent. Set some deadlines for oyurself—doesn't have to be rigid as mine, I'm assuming you're not serial-writing so you have a lot more breathing room with writing a 15k short story. If you even wrote a minimum of 500 a day+bursts to go even further you can probably finish it in 2 weeks. Best of luck anon. Vomit those words out, let it rest for 2-3 months and come back to it later in editing period. You got this.