Here are a few tricks I use to keep myself motivated.
When editing is sucking the life from my muse, I write little 1,500 word snippets to keep my brain limber. I use the keywords people have used to find my blog to determine the subject. That way, it’s at least something I’m interested in (ex: hairy bear men, oh yeah baby). If you don’t have a blog, you could go on Amazon, find a favorite book, and use a few words that show up in the tag section, or write some fan fiction. I post it here and Literotica as a free read, and I get to remember why I’m writing in the first place—I like it.
Another problem we all run into is motivation. For this, you need a book, or something, that you like to read. No, don’t use Reddit or another such site. It needs to be a story, whether it’s some cheesy vampire smut on Literotica or a wrist-buster from Tor, because Reddit will suck your soul. Now, you need to set a goal and a reward, ex. for every 200 words I write, I get to read one page of this smut on Literotica. Or, for every 10% I edit (I often read things on my Kindle to edit) I get a page of smut (they’re long pages). Basically, your goal is to change a day where you would have been bummed out about being unproductive into a day when you get a little work done. Even if you end up doing more reading than writing, it’s better than none.
The most popular tag people use to find my blog is ‘porn cake.’
Imagine what I could write around that!
That’s awesome. I might steal that one. “Awkwardly oozing 50 Shades of Grey” is another one I like.
Feel free! 🙂 I’m sure there’s more than one story in ‘porn cake.’
Hahaha I wish I could motivate myself with smut. Unfortunately, I live with my mother, and I can just imagine her walking over and saying, “What are you working on, Mich … what’s that? What are you looking at? Why did you suddenly close your internet browser? Why is your face red? Why are you running out of the room? Michelle! Come back!”