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I'm sort of new to this site and I immediately loved it. My first story game to read/play was Dead Man Walking, it inspired me to try and write one of my own. I started writing one and recently lost all motivation to continue it or really anything else...is there anything I can do to get over this?

Welcome to the site. I suggest reading Finding the Muse for good (and bad) ideas for helping writing.

Thank you, I will.

Have a look at the prompts from last month's contest thread and see if anything inspires you. There are plenty of old writing and poetry prompts in the Creative Corner, too.

I've been told that not being excited about writing a scene or a story means that subconsciously you know there's something wrong with it. Maybe try a smaller project and just keep ironing out characters and plots until you find something that works for you. You can do pretty much all of your brainstorming and swap ideas around as needed before you ever commit to the actual writing part.

Try doing a smaller project then going back to your larger one. Dead Man Walking was the first story I started here, but the third or fourth one I actually published haha!

There's no magic solution to finding motivation or inspiration. Generally, getting started and keeping after a project helps a writer feed off of the writing itself. It's getting over that initial hurdle that is the real difficulty. Writing can be like a habit, and habits take time and concentrated effort to start or break.

If you're working on a project and keeping after it, but you still aren't motivated, that's a good indication that there is something lacking in your plot and that you need to develop the story more as a concept before you actually write the story.

Thank you all!