3. How do you go about writing if you're just not in the mood for it?

 I would say, when I know I need to write (for how else is progress made) but I'm just not feeling it, I start with small expectations. I was working on a novella the other day, like a  10k done-in-a-week kind of project. But, a few days ago, it wasn't happening. So, I opened the project, and I started reading through. And, I found a typo! Small victories. It got the juices flowing. I got into the current chapter, chapter 2, and I was like, maybe a paragraph? Maybe a few hundred words? And I wrote a paragraph. Felt good. Things continued in this manner as small steps became bigger steps, and two hours later I was just over a thousand words written and most of chapter 3 was done. But, the way the day was going, there was no way I was sitting down with the goal to write one and a half chapters. It started with a paragraph.

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