How can I motivate myself to write?

That’s a little bit about the situation.
You’re talking about a “snucking mental situation,” you can understand a lot.

Yes, with a normal creative flaute, it can be a valuable tip that you simply sit down and write something. Start the main thing. It has helped me in the past.

However, if the cause is not lack of creativity, but your mental condition (e.g. depression), this is no longer so easy to solve, I fear.

I have to keep my stories on account of this, for years and again. Not because they get too boring or because I don’t know how to go on, but because I can’t focus on it or let it go. And if I force myself, I’ll sit in front of my laptop for hours and stare at the virtual white paper until I close the program at some point. Or I write a paragraph, then extinguish it again, rewrite it, then extinguish it again – the result remains an empty side.
I am a person who likes to suppress his emotions when it becomes too much for me. Without emotions, I can’t write well. Although I produce grammatically correct sentences, they lack gloss and depth. I need to search each word individually, it just doesn’t flow out of me as I am used to. And that’s incredibly frustrating if you just want the most.

I also know this urge to finish its projects despite everything. The ideas that have been firmly anchored in my thoughts for years and have grown more and more will finally be banished on paper. And I want to lose myself so much in doing exactly that. Like before. But something in me is fighting.
And then comes my inner critic, who always stands on my side and whispers to me, that I should just let it be, because I am completely talent-free and never anyone would ever read anything I wrote.

Nevertheless, some things have helped me to get this problem back under control for some time. Reading was a very large part of it. Once I had found a story that I liked, it was actually swallowed up by me, and I usually felt it was easier to rewrite to my own works at least for a short time.

Otherwise, but this has also been mentioned, it can help to work on the details of his stories instead of rushing directly into writing. For example, some time ago, it helped me to write out the past of my protagonists completely instead of just holding them in punctual terms. This is like a small writing exercise and can help solve the node or at least loosen something.

Sometimes it also helps to write a scene that may never find its way into history, but it helps you to let out your buzzed feelings. Or you write a letter to the person who has hurt a very much (of course never sent) or you sit down and write about how frustrated this persistent writing blockade, such things.

But as I said, this depends on the situation. I don’t think there’s a general answer that works for everyone.

I think the only thing you can really do is try. You can try and actively force yourself to start. Maybe it works with you?
You can try to put yourself in the right mood with music.
You can read the chapters you have already written again. Sometimes it’s enough to get back in and create new motivation. You may also have new ideas that you want to implement directly.
Sometimes it helps to reduce distractions. Pack the cell phone out of sight, cap your internet connection, turn off the TV, and make sure of a pleasant working environment. Some people can write better in other places than home.

Try it. More than it doesn’t work can’t happen.

In the end, it can be the most trivial things that suddenly rewrite one and most of them come (unfortunately) unexpectedly. You can only try to push yourself in this direction and hope for the best. It works and sometimes it doesn’t work. It is also sometimes easy to accept.

I very much hope that you will find a way for you that works and brings you back the fun of writing.

Love