An Addendum for How Do I Write Part II: Motivations

 What I forgot to address is that necessity, or to a more common, realistic extent, pressure from a relative/friend/significant other is another major driver to write. For the lazier folk in the world, it is only pressure from others that they could actually manage to do something useful with themselves. It is this that can cure depression and tiredness, because if you actually try to put your mind to doing something that others would want you to do, it will give you enough of a drive to go work on your craft.

Pressure does not have to be forceful. In fact, it often comes from being thrown into different situations where an opportunity to fully understand what you like comes from others playfully challenging, or encouraging you, to strive.

After all, Tommy only got out of his childhood funk after one Elton John challenged him to competitive pinball; it revealed that Tommy was a prodigy at that game.

As a writer, I always had the knack to write well, but it was not until I met my mentor, Charles Tabb, that I finally had the chance to seriously hone my craft. Sure, it does take a while to learn, but when you're in a club with many other people who have far more experience to you based on age, it encourages you to play with them, to see whether you can outsmart them at the one game you would have in common.

Similarly, college is another pressure to write better. I am a college student, now attending Liberty University after graduating from Central Virginia Community College with an Associate's Degree in General Studies. There were several times were I came close to failure, particularly because I was such I bad procrastinator (I still am, but not as much as before), but I managed to get through at the end because my father pressured me into studying harder. I do understand that procrastination is a natural human tendency to try to find relief from the endless grind of daily life, but it is certainly best when it is done in reason. It is a waste to not do anything with oneself, but tiredness is often an illusion, not a reality. If you want to be an author, you should not only read and write like crazy, but also you should pretend that something bad is about to happen every second of every day. And rather than surrender to it, you should simply play along. Therefor you'll realize that you actually completed something.