/lit/ - Literature

How do you guys motivate yourselves to write when things are stressful?

Life has been stressful and very busy it seems like. I've manged to finish reading a couple books, but it feels like every time I think "I should sit down and work on that chapter/start that scene today", something always ends up happening that I have to deal with first, or I get super tired the minute I get home.

Convince me that it's important to be able to think logically.

Problem, /lit/. I could use some advice here.

Currently working on my own writing pet project, and obviously, descriptions are important. But here's the problem: I'm an anosmiac. I have literally no sense of smell. Therefore it's impossible for me to write/describe anything regarding smell, because I have no idea how it even works, aside from incredibly generic terms that everyone uses. Sometimes I've simply googled "the smell of X" to figure it out, but that doesn't feel very authentic. And I can't really say that every character in the story has a malfunctioning nose.

Any ideas?

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Empathy without understanding and cognition doesn't give you morality.