This is great advice, but doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve found the snowflake method gives me more motivation.
It works by identifying the core element of the story and expanding with ever more detail. I prefer this method because if you get an idea in your head you can start writing about the most exciting things first. Flush out cool ideas first and it encourages iterative working so even if your first couple passes are garbage (as they will be) you get to refine them as you mull things over in your head.
If you want to write, just write.
Get some paper, a pen, sit your butt down and write.
Don’t use a computer. Not yet. Commit to writing what comes out. Keep the mistakes, the bad spelling, the weird phrasing, everything.
Just let it out.
Then get away. And I do mean away.
Throw it in the corner, maybe behind the cat litter or the dog food or perhaps near the toilet or stand your bed lamp on it.
Let it get cold. Maybe a week.
Then go back, read it and, now, you can you the computer or the cellphone to start cleaning up the thing and improving it.
Why the computer hate?
If I tried to write long form by hand, somewhere around two-thirds down the first page I’d have nothing but illegible chicken scratch.
This is great advice, but doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve found the snowflake method gives me more motivation.
It works by identifying the core element of the story and expanding with ever more detail. I prefer this method because if you get an idea in your head you can start writing about the most exciting things first. Flush out cool ideas first and it encourages iterative working so even if your first couple passes are garbage (as they will be) you get to refine them as you mull things over in your head.
https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/