Writing is hard, there is no doubt. Like any skill you must keep doing it no matter how mundane or unmotivated you are if you want to keep the skill fresh and growing.
Pick up any writing book and they will all tell you that regular, routine, scheduled writing is the key to being a writer. This is one of those skills, like music, painting, creating anything where you need to do it in order to get better... and finish something.
If you break your routine, like I did this past weekend, you get behind. You lose that mojo and fire to do it.
I got behind and missed my self-assigned deadline to get a short story revised and finished each week. Now I need to get two done to get back on track.
I finished a short story, revisions anyway, called Eye Contact.
I will review it tomorrow and post it to Wattpad and enter it in the contest.
Write everyday, no matter good or bad, you don't need to publish or finish everything you write. You never know, a throw away story may have that one scene or dialogue you will need later on down the line. But if you don't write it down, you're just wasting possible moments of creative output your mind may not give you again.
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