Transient motivation

I've been lacking in motivation lately to post my past poems, maybe because I've reached the point where they're all mushy and... I don't know... icky. I'm kind of excited about getting to my more recent poems though, enough that I'm contemplating just screwing the chronological order thing. But I'd rather not have to backtrack to these so I'm just going to go ahead with how I've been doing things thus far. On the bright side (if you can call it that), I'll probably skip a lot of the 2006/2007 poems because they suck more than usual, and then I didn't write very much in 2008/2009. So I should be caught up to 2010 in no time.

Reading fanfics on LiveJournal has become my hobby lately, and I've stumbled across so many great writers on LiveJournal. It really makes me want to write but I've never had the patience or the creativity to pull off a story, except maybe two (and even that is probably wishful thinking). I always started stories when I was younger, and I still have many of those drafts with me even today, but I never finished them. I had this bad habit of rewriting and reworking everything, and then eventually losing interest or losing motivation. It's just so frustrating to want to write something awesome and find that it's so ridiculously hard to actually put your images and emotions into words on paper.
Although it's a little different, when I was in undergrad and my friends would complain about having to write a paper but not being able to write anything good, I would always give them this advice: just write. It doesn't matter how bad it is, how stupid it sounds, how many grammatical errors or spelling mistakes you have, or how muddled your ideas are. Just write. You can always go back and tweak it; the more important thing is to just get something down.

Practice what you preach, huh.