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>happy, have no inspiration to write
>depressed, have no motivation to write

How do I solve this?

>> No.13955575

>>13955572
S C H E D U L E

WRITE FROM 9 to 2

SCHEDULE

WASH YOIR PENIS

>> No.13955584

>>13955575
If I write when I don't feel inspired, won't I just turn out like Stephen King?

>> No.13955594

>muh inspiration
never goinna make it

>> No.13955625

Stop cooming

>> No.13955631

>>13955584
rich and famous, happily married for 40+ years with 3 kids? no, you will probably still end up sad lonely and poor

>> No.13955709

>>13955625
This is a lie

>> No.13955716

>>13955594

I'll say this the "inspiration" thing is such an odd concept that exists. As if it's something that just falls out of the sky and will hit an artist on the head and he'll all of a sudden whip up an epic in a blazing fortnight of passion.

I'd argue it's PASSION which serves as something that fires you up enough to find what inspires you. Passion should be the inspiration, for your craft, for the worlds you can create, for the social commentary which you might make in your novel. If that passion doesn't exist or if someone is simply too insecure or has too many walls up to find this raft that they can hold onto in the worst of personal storms then they're truly not gonna make it.

>> No.13955722

Discipline

You'll never be good at something you only do when you feel like it.

>> No.13956033

>>13955716
they are the same thing you dumbshit

>> No.13956039
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13956039

>>13955572
Anyone ever feel like they're only happy in a tragedy and a violent storm?

>> No.13956046

>>13955594
>>13955716
>fools who have never felt the divine gift of the creative fire.
I'm not saying I've revolutionised anything, but it's a mode of existence as thought as actual and being - neither does it appear to know but exist as you move. This Promethean fire is far beyond understanding; which is what you consider, to be inspiration.

>> No.13956047

>>13955572
if your happiness leaves you with no inspiration to write, then you are not truly happy

>> No.13956079

what is it with retards saying "you'll never make it" who fucking writes to make it? The point is to write what you feel.

I do it like this, remember what i want to write when i'm depressed and work out in my head how i want to put it, what feel i'm aiming for etc.
Then when i'm happy I try to write that.

>> No.13956083

>>13955584
No, you'll be much worse.

>> No.13956084

>>13955572
just be yourself

>> No.13956095

>>13955572
Inspiration is fleeting.
Discipline is eternal.

Decide when you're going to write and then do nothing else but write when that time comes, no listening to music or a movie in the background.

>> No.13956575

>>13956046
You can manifest this "promethean fire" you speak of more often if you are disciplined than just by waiting to be struck by something external.

>> No.13956589

>>13956575
No you can't.

>> No.13956604

think less write more, like a child
>Im not writing atm myself though