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Master Awareness of 3 States to Find the Motivation to Write

Why that trick to get yourself to write isn’t cutting it anymore.

James Calderon
6 min readMar 7, 2021

There are few situations during a writer’s process as frustrating as losing motivation to write.

It’s such a problem that if you Google how to motivate yourself to write you’ll find no limit to the amount of suggestions from often repeated ones, to people trying to pose unique solutions.

One of my recent favorites is writing for your writer crush.

These common and uncommon solutions may work for a few people, they may even work for you for a while, but eventually and often inexplicably they stop working.

I can see jaws tightening and eyes narrowing in annoyance at the thought.

Hang in there! There’s actually a very reasonable explanation for why these things stop helping and it all has to do with our current state of being.

The 3 Core States of You-ness

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Trigger Warning: I’m about to take us down a path of generalization, and I’m in no way seeking to invalidate the…

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James Calderon
James Calderon

Written by James Calderon

Fantasy Writer, Marketing Professional, Ex-Game Industry & Self-Help, here to lift up fellow writers and share insights about the craft of writing.

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