Motivation is hard for me to pick up. It seems now that I rarely can draw or write, despite WANTING to so badly. My mind wants to get better, but my body refuses to draw or write anything. I don't know what to do to get around it. I've tried many things; I've forced myself to draw/write, I've taken small steps and worked on small things for just a few minutes each day to gradually get my work done, and I've tried to walk around every corner of where I live and browsed everywhere on the internet to get inspiration. Nothing.I don't know what's up. I'm not afraid of bad comments or criticism, and in fact I encourage it on my drawings/writings. It isn't that I'm lazy, either. Every time I try to do something, I have the mindset of "Yeah, I'm gonna do this!" and once I'm a few minutes into it, I go, "Nah, I'll do this some other time." despite what motivation I might have picked up moments before. It's come to the point where I only complete something once a month, if that. I WANT to practice my skills every day, like so many have told me in order to improve, but I just can't for some reason. I seriously don't know what to do.

I know that feeling. When I feel that it's my body being fussy, rather than my mind, I usually try to do some sort of exercise, with lots of good, loud music. Even if it's just dancing like a loon for a couple minutes in your room, getting the blood and endorphins flowing really seems to help (for me, anyway). Either way, I wish you good luck and I hope you can find your motivation and draw/write lovely things for the world to marvel at!

Something that helped me is that if you're serious about what you do (we're buddies with the writing thing), then it's going to be work for you, so you should treat it as such.  You wouldn't say to your work, "I'll do this another time" unless you're a procrastinator like me, but even if you're a procrastinator, you'll eventually buckle down if you have a deadline.  You probably wouldn't have a deadline for this (yet), so you can impose one on yourself if you have the will.  If not, you can designate a specific block of time in the day for the writing or drawing, even if it's just an hour.

 

It seems that you have the motivation and inspiration to want to do it ("Yeah, I'm gonna do this!"), but not the motive to physically do it ("Nah, I'll do this some other time.").  I've learned motivation comes in two parts and it's easy to have one or the other, but not both.  This is where treating-your-work-as-actual-work thing comes in.  A proper mindset is a powerful tool, but it can be hard to get it.  It takes willpower and being able to force yourself, but not force in and of itself because you're just spinning your wheels--you need to force yourself properly.

 

If you find yourself unable to get anything done, you need to do whatever it takes to get you into the right mindset.  For me, I can't work at home.  I'm too complacent and relaxed there and I can't concentrate, even when I want to do something.  I've taken to going to coffee shops and working there; a different environment does me wonders, since it makes you more alert and more focused.  The work I'm doing there is no different than what I'd do at home, but I'm better able to physically do it.  It's harder to use the "I'll do this another time" excuse because I'm already outside, at the table with coffee, with work in front of me; short of talking to people, surfing the internet, or staring out into space, there's less to distract me with.

 

So, try designating an hour or so for "work at coffee shop," and do it.  Then see what you've done--the ability to measure your progress comes in handy.  Maybe that can help.  It works for me, at least.

I know that feel ;-;It's like you have a brilliant idea that you know people will like, but 3 minutes into it and it just doesn't seem fun anymore so you want to do something else to entertain yourself :/Have you tried browsing the web for tips on "motivating yourself" or something like that?

Whenever I'm feeling completely unmotivated I take time to myself. As much time as I need before I can't hold back from the thing I'm wanting to do but was losing motivation for.

I know that feel ;-;It's like you have a brilliant idea that you know people will like, but 3 minutes into it and it just doesn't seem fun anymore so you want to do something else to entertain yourself :/Have you tried browsing the web for tips on "motivating yourself" or something like that?

 

Expanding on this and my previous point, a problem I used to have with trying to get motivation for things I'm interested in, is treating what you're doing as pure entertainment and nothing else.  If it's worth doing, it won't be pure entertainment; work will be involved, but hopefully, the good kind of work.

 

I think there are good and bad kinds of labor.  Bad labor is what you mostly get in school or at a mindless job, doing it because you have to, not because you want to.  Good labor is work you're willing to do because it matters to you beyond a monetary gain.  Things like sports, self-imposed challenges in video games, and yes, writing and drawing, should be the good labor.  However, as much as you enjoy it, labor is labor.  It takes effort and the acknowledgement it's not pure fun.  A story or a drawing can and probably will have frustrating parts where you have to just sit down and work to get it done.

 

Going back to my point about having a proper mindset, when you acknowledge there's gonna be some not-so-fun effort involved with what you want to do, I've found it's much easier to get myself to physically do it.  Writing, for instance, will become the good kind of labor instead of something I'm trying to treat as pure fun, and get frustrated when I'm not getting that fun.  It also helps to put yourself in a situation where you can't get distracted or complacent, like my coffee shop example.  Environment helps with your mindset.  It just takes some experimentation in finding what works for you.  Some people need a quiet room to be alone in, so they'll prefer, say, a library over Starbucks.  There's plenty of things you can do to help yourself get motivation, probably more than you considered.  That's why it helps to ask what other people do.

Yes. There are times when you need a certain something to give you spark.