What gets me going as a writer?

What gets me going as a writer?

Well, I'd probably say the biggest thing that motivates me to write is music. Every time I come up with an idea for a story, or write a chapter, I'm constantly listening to music. The music helps dictate the mood and feel I am trying to go for, and usually I go for sad music.

I like to write realistically, at least in the sense that the story requires it. We all come here to escape from reality, to have a break from it, that's why we all watch the show, right? Atleast, that's why I watch it. However, I find bridging the two gaps between fiction and reality (with safety, because merging the two too often results in confusion between both) seems to evoke a sort of emotion out of me. Seeing these characters that I love so much go through something that I thought only us humans could go through is something quite.. relatable.

Back to music.

I'd say the two best songs I listen to when I try to come up with idea's are Adagio for Strings and Ending Slideshow Music from Fallout New Vegas.

These two songs bring out the best idea's inside me, and motivate me to keep writing.

The second biggest thing that motivates me to write is.. well, I suppose acknowledgement.

That might be bad. As an Author, I don't believe that popularity should dictate your writing, and it doesn't dictate my writing. However, just knowing that people do read my writing, and whether they disagree or agree with whatever I wrote, and took the time out of their 24 hours to sit and read a little bit of it, motivates me to keep doing it. A lot of my life has been spent simply going with the flow, trying not to do anything out of the ordinary. I didn't want to do something too great, because I didn't want the attention and responsibility it garnered. Though, I never failed, because that would also put attention and responsibility on me. I liked to stay invisible.

But when I write, it's different. I want to keep writing for those that enjoy my writing. I remember reading stories on here, waiting eagerly for each new chapter to come out. I simply hope that I gave that feeling to somebody else out there in the world. The passion for something that I created. I also want to inspire new writers to keep trying, whether or not they get a lot of dislikes on their writing. I see too many times where people get a lot of dislikes on a particular story and lose the motivation. Yes, it does suck when you see that dislike number go up, but it shouldn't stop you.

Because even if there's 90 dislikes, as long as there is 1 like, that means somebody enjoyed it enough to take a second out of their day to click that little button. And, as minor as that might sound to somebody, to me, it means something completely different. A second might seem small, but I think we underestimate it. All it takes is a second to become successful, a second to fail, a second to save your own life and a second to die. A single second is what defines us as people.

Another big thing that motivates me is probably my enjoyment for my writing.

I love writing, even if I make plenty of grammatical mistakes. Which, I do make a ton of them. I never paid much attention in English class because the way it was taught bothered me. We should learn about the famous people who wrote famous books and all of that, but I don't believe that something can be written wrong. Even if you can't make sense of it, even if it makes no sense at all, I believe that nothing can be written in a wrong way. And, when I turn in a paper and it gets sent right back to me with a low grade because I didn't write it the way they wanted, it angers me a little.

I enjoy the few stories I've made.

The Diary is the beginning of my second start on this website. I joined a long time ago but was dormant for years, and now I'm back. I wanted to use The Diary as a little test, to write it out and see what people liked and didn't like. It's not huge, it has a lot of problems within it, and I put it on pause currently to come up with a cohesive story for it.

Solaire and His Sun is my biggest story at the moment, and I love it to death. The Dark Souls series has always been something that I believed was a masterpiece, and I enjoyed writing Solaire in my own way and adapting the bleak world of Dark Souls into the bright world of MLP.

Existential Crisis is a story I wrote as a small one-off thing. I've had plenty of Existential Crisis', and it's been something I've been thinking about for years. I find myself thinking about certain things that make no sense to think about, and it leads me to believe certain things that seem impossible. I wrote it because I just.. wanted to. I suppose there is no real reason for writing it.

And now we are at my current story:

A Rimworld Away.

A Rimworld Away is matched with Solaire and His Sun for being my favorite story. Rimworld, the game, is a game that shows you just how difficult it would be to survive in a world that is constantly against you. No matter where you go, no matter where you hide, no matter how far away you run or how hard you fight, something will always go wrong. And, I love that. Because although Rimworld shows it in a very exaggerated way, that's basically what life is like. And, I wanted to bridge the harsh reality of Rimworld with the colorful ponies of Equestria, and that's the story I got so far.

What's even the point of this blog?

I don't know.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, whatever motivates you to write, do it. If it's music, listen to music. If it's watching a show or series, watch it. If it's a book, read it. Whatever it might be, do it, because you might love it. Share your creativity, your knowledge, and your happiness with others. Even if they might not like it, you should still keep trying. Life is too short to live like you have time to do things.

If you ever have time, read Fahrenheit 451.

If we don't inspire new writers to come and share their creativity, we'll be stuck with the past and only the past. Even if the past is good, and should be remembered, we'll forget the path that we took to get from the past to the present. Criticize your fellow Authors kindly, and give them advice and tips on how to better themselves as a writer. Inspire them to keep trying instead of bashing them to stop writing. Be kind, because we don't have time to be angry at eachother.

We don't have time at all.