Sometimes no matter how hard you try you can’t write.  The words feel like you’re trying to pull rusty nails out of a board and you’re just not getting anywhere with your writing.  No matter what you write, whether it’s blog posts or full length novels, you’ve probably experienced something like this at one point or another.

I personally cope with this by either starting a different blog post, one that I’m more motivated to write (i.e. one for a book I really enjoyed) or just walking away for a little bit.  Walking away can mean saving the post as a draft for as little as an hour or so or as much as a year.  Usually I will come back to a post, particularly if it’s a review but sometimes it’s really hard.  So I try to motivate myself by listening to music I enjoy while writing it or giving myself a little pep talk.  It’s kind of weird but it generally works.

Now what I want to know is this: If you do writing of any sort, what motivates and/or inspires you to do it?  When you’re struggling to find the words, how do you get past your writer’s block?