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Inspiration not needed
I didn’t want to write yesterday. I didn’t feel well and was too tired to force my brain to do anything. I thought about opening my manuscript, but I just wasn’t feeling inspired.
As the day went on, I kept thinking about having a zero word count for the day. It was bugging the hell out of me. Finally, last night I caved and opened my manuscript. After three “warm up” paragraphs, my characters were talking a mile a minute. I couldn’t shut them up. When I finally stopped, I’d written about 1500 words.
I used to think that I needed to feel inspired to write. And thinking that way has probably cost me hours of productivity. Who knows what great things I could have written in those hours?
Apparently all I really needed was a couple of warm up paragraphs and characters that I love to hang around with.
