I'm not in the mood to write - writing tip

Well, boo-ho sunshine. Get your ass in that chair, and those fingers on the keyboard and TYPE! If we all waited until we were ‘in the mood’ for writing then it would take 10 years, or an eternity to finish a book. You don’t go ‘I’m not in the mood for…’:
- Making dinner
- Go to work
- Go to a family event
- Cleaning
- Netflix and chill
- *Insert hobby or shit that’s relevant to you here*

But those things needs to be done. If you’re serious with your writing, even if it’s just a hobby, you need to put the name in the game. We can all sit with a fancy glass of wine, and a cigarette dangling from the corner of our mouth with the line ‘Creativity can’t be rushed. I’m not in the mood.’ In fact, yes it can. Simply write, and don’t care if it’s shit. Because you can always edit it. It’s not like you’re writing with your own blood on ancient papyrus. You have a laptop/computer (most of us do anyway) and it’s so goddamned easy to edit. Write like your life depends on it. We all have good days and bad days. On the good days we can perhaps use 90% of what we created that day. Other days you can only use 5%, that’s how life is, but at least you got something! Or maybe it sparked an idea for a completely different scene instead ;) anyhow, it’s good practice no matter what.
The secret to finishing a book is to make time for writing, and write.
But the ultimate tip for when you’ve had a sleepless night or a too heavy hangover:
Research. Yes, mostly we all have or can find some research we need to do.
-Your characters childhood home? Pet? Friends?
- Next travel destination?
- An area of expertise you know nothing about?
The other thing you can do is simply edit. Get those comma-bitches in line, evolve your language, make it varied, stuff like that. Or simply take a day off now and then (NOW AND THEN!)
If your spine and self-discipline is equal to a shady cat, then say ‘I have to write 1 hour a day’ or something like that. I write Sunday-Thursday, Friday-Saturday is my days off. Of course this routine can be interrupted by life events, sickness, Christmas, you name it, but it’s important to get right back at your writing routine again after life happens.
Again if you’re serious with your writing you have to accept it’s not always a walk on roses. Some things you won’t be satisfied with, other times you’ll be stuck, but remember why you do it. Remember when it’s fun (and it has to be mostly fun, but there’s up and downs to everything.)
And another great motivator is to think of your poor characters there’ll have no conclusion to their story. They’ll just be stuck in an infinite black hole with no answers, and no moving back or forth. Only you can help them. Imagine their lost and confused voices, “Help us. What will become of us? Where’s our ending? Where’s our answers?” Can you hear them? Don’t they deserve it? Of course they do! So make it happen, even though you’re ‘not in the mood.’ In my opinion you’re not serious with your writing if you use that line. It takes work. Maybe some of you don’t agree, and that’s okay. That’s just my opinion. Get to the laptop/computer and do something about it.